I have an SCL application on TSO. Everything's fine, but some of the nervous nellies in the office would -like- daily transactions processed by the system to be written out to a flat file, preferably a GDG. Each day's transactions would be written to the +1 bias number. Therein lies the problem.

At this installation, coding a GDG in JCL looks something like this: //DD DAILY DSN=XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.DAILY.TRANS(+1), // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // DCB=(DUMMY,LRECL=80,SPACE(TRK(10,10)),RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=0) // UNIT=SYSDA

In the DCB clause, BLKSIZE=0 tells the OS to assign an "optimum" blocksize, and DUMMY references the GDG base. The file created will have as the last qualifier G0001V00, G0002V00, etc.

Well, that's OK for a batch job, but this particular app doesn't run in batch. I can code all the parameters I need in a FILENAME statement FILENAME function *except* the DMMY. No matter where I put it, SAS says this isn't a valid option for a filename. Without it, the OS tells me it can't find the base index, and the file isn't created.

Anyone have any suggestions?