Re: Disp parameter
Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 6:13 pm
rajasekhar4u, please go back and read the JCL Language Reference manual again. You have completely and totally misunderstood the disposition parameter. From the manual section 12.19.2.2:
What you posted completely contradicts note 1 of the quote -- and given a choice of believing the manual or your post, I'm going with the manual. A temporary data set will be deleted at the end of a job. A permanent data set will be kept and / or cataloged at the end of a job (unless the disposition is DELETE in which case it is deleted at the end of the job).PASS
Indicates that the data set is to be passed for use by a subsequent step in the same job.
With SMS, the system replaces PASS with KEEP for permanent VSAM and non-VSAM data sets. When you refer to the data set later in the job, the system obtains data set information from the catalog.
Notes:
1. A data set can be passed only within a job.