Hi all,

        I ran into a snag from this weekend, and I'm looking for some
clarification (read as proof I'm not losing what tiny bit of memory I have
left).  We run  several instances of a job at the same time to do multiple
updates based upon input to the prog within the job.

The JCL has a file EQ to set up a temp file for the program run:
        FILE IM077Z01 IM077Z01.DATAWORK;TEMP;DISC=250000

The COBOL source simply refers to the Z01 file as a generic file (no EQ
designation, etc.):
        SELECT I-O-PRICE ASSIGN TO "IM077Z01".

This weekend, a perm file existed with the same name as the temp file (and
GROUP.ACCOUNT), so the prog aborted first with a error:

Filename: IM077Z01
File status is 9[
Unable to OPEN file, See File System error [9x] (COBERR 644)
Program file: IM077.PROG.VALLEY
EXCLUSIVE VIOLATION: FILE ACCESSED EXCLUSIVELY  (FSERR 91).

Then when we ran the job as a single job (rather that 5 versions at once),
we got an abort on the close of the file:

Filename: IM077Z01
File status is 9n
Unable to CLOSE file, See File System error [9x] (COBERR 633)
Program file: IM077.PROG.VALLEY
ATTEMPT TO SAVE PERMANENT FILE AS TEMPORARY  (FSERR 110)

        I purged the perm file, and reran the other jobs, and all worked
fine, but since the file EQ is for a temp file, I'm at a loss as to why the
perm file was being accessed?


TIA for any help.   :-)


Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves none of us
to talk about the rest of us"
                  --Robert Louis Stevenson?


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