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tinamshorty
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Does anyone know how to continue a DYNAM ALLOC line in mainframe jcl that is too long to fit on one line? I thought it was a hyphen at the end of the first line but I keep getting an error on the next line. Does the hyphen go in a specific position?

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FOCUS for Mainframe 7.2
Windows and IBM Z9 Mainframe processor
FOCUS, Excel


 
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Tom Flynn
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Space hyphen:

  
DYNAM ALLOC FI TESTGDG DA CSSWXB.GDGTEST.DATA(+1) NEW CATALOG -
SPACE 5 5 TRACKS RECFM FB LRECL 80 REUSE


Nobody uses the Search engine anymore, sigh! Confused

EDIT: BTW, DYNAM ALLOC is not in the JCL; it is a DYNAMic ALLOCation within WebFOCUS.

For JCL:

 
//TESTGDG DD DSN=CSSWXB.GDGTEST.DATA(+1),DISP=(NEW,CATALOG,DELETE),
//           SPACE=(TRK,(5,5)),BLKSIZE=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=4096)


OR, something like that!

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tinamshorty
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sorry, i meant in the fex not the jcl.
And i did search the forum first but did not find what i needed.
I do have a space and then a hyphen to extend the line so something else must be happening.
Thanks.


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Tom Flynn
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tina,

Wasn't trying to be mean, BUT, there are 5 pages of examples here!

In the Search bucket, I entered "DYNAM ALLOC" WITH the double quotes...

No offence intended!

Tom


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Francis Mariani
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All the examples in my papyrus archive seem to suggest leaving the first character of every line after the first one blank:

DYNAM ALLOC  CATALOG DDNAME JCL DSNAME &DS_JCL NEW -
      UNIT PROD SPACE 1,1 TRACKS RECFM FB LRECL 80 BLKSIZE 0

DYNAM ALLOC  DDNAME SELECT DSNAME YSMIC99.TEMP.SELECT -                         
 NEW CATALOG UNIT PROD SPACE 1,1 TRACKS DIR 5 -                                 
 RECFM FB LRECL 80 BLKSIZE 0 DSORG PO


Francis


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Tip from Ginny: MVS/TSO Guide to Operations


Francis


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We got it working! Thanks!
I think our problem was with the actual allocation of the file and not the continuation of the line.


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I guess we should have asked what the error was! That would have suggested whether it was a syntax error or a file error.


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