Bad form to reply to myself, but I should have added this. This gave me a hint: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/abend0c4-or-other-problems-retrieving-dataset-names-cobol
This gave me the answer: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI58751 We're moving to z/OS 2.3 which was the source of the environment change. best regards, Peter On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:34:44 -0500, Peter Bishop <pbisho...@dxc.com> wrote: >Hi, > >in case anyone else is having failures using the old SWAREQ REXX that is >floating around (originally from Gilbert Saint Flour), in our case as part of >a REXX that compares catalogues via the IGGCSI00 program and various other >methods, you will need to change your job class to SWA=BELOW to get it to work. > >After I did that, the mysterious errors relating to rubbish dataset names that >SWAREQ was returning vanished, and normal processing resumed. > >Hope this saves some time for others. > >best regards, >Peter > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
