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?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: tinamshorty,

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!

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!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tom Flynn,

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.

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

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                                           

Tip from Ginny: MVS/TSO Guide to Operations

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

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