How many of these issues would be resolved if there was a new DISP option that meant "delete this dataset if it already exists, and then allocate it as new."?
Something like: //MYPROG EXEC PGM=MYPROG //MYDATA DD DSN=MY.DATA.FILE, // DISP=(RENEW,CATLG), // SPACE=(CYL,(10,10)) This seems such an obvious option to have that there must (?!?!) be some reason that it hasn't been provided in the last 45 years. But I don't know what that reason might be. This would eliminate pretty much all of my usage if IEFBR14. Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
