Author: Bill Woodger
Subject: Reply to: trying to define a VSAM Cluster in JCL
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 10:26 am (GMT 5.5)
You are suggesting that the operating system has chosen to pick on your perfect JCL and Control Cards, out of all the jobsteps in the world, to lie?
Are you able to copy/paste this perfection from your emulator? We'd either all benefit from it, or spot what is wrong.
Out of interest, running what you have shown would not close the dataset to CICS, as Robert has already indicated. Let's speculate, just for fun, that operationally the dataset is mostly already closed by the time your JOB starts. Then the "SEMT" fails (and why would it not?) and someone does CEMT manually and kicks your step back in.
Subject: Reply to: trying to define a VSAM Cluster in JCL
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 10:26 am (GMT 5.5)
You are suggesting that the operating system has chosen to pick on your perfect JCL and Control Cards, out of all the jobsteps in the world, to lie?
Are you able to copy/paste this perfection from your emulator? We'd either all benefit from it, or spot what is wrong.
Out of interest, running what you have shown would not close the dataset to CICS, as Robert has already indicated. Let's speculate, just for fun, that operationally the dataset is mostly already closed by the time your JOB starts. Then the "SEMT" fails (and why would it not?) and someone does CEMT manually and kicks your step back in.