On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:18:05 +0000, Jousma, David wrote: >We have an exit for DFSORT that scans TIOT to see if someone concatenated a >DUMMY dataset as input. Here is what I believe to be the relevant snippet of >code: > ... >* CHECK FOR DUMMY DD STATEMENT >* NOTE: COULD ALSO BE DD * >DDCHK CLC TIOEFSRT,=AL3(0) Q. REAL UCB ADDRESS ? > BE DDBAD A. NO, BAD DD > ... > How does this behave for DD PATH=...? Is the UCB address nonzero for zFS files? Are you unwittingly prohibiting use of zFS in the SORTIN concatenation? That would be imprisoning your users in the twentieth century.
Prohibiting "DD *" is also unduly harsh. A similar question applies to Shmuel's suggestion of DEVTYPE. The definitive test should be for DSNAME='NULLFILE'. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
