Date:         Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:34:35 +0200
Reply-To:     F a b r i z i o <Fabrizio1@USA.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         F a b r i z i o <Fabrizio1@USA.NET>
Organization: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Subject:      Re: MVS - output to multiple members of a PDS

Mathur, Mukesh [IBM GSA] wrote in message
<7122E3C522C2D311B9C700508B02DCA3478FFF@NTMSG0099>...
>Hello MVS people,
>
>We have a job that updates multiple members of a PDS in one datastep. This
>has been running ok on one mainframe, but when we moved it to another
domain
>it failed. Error was' Open failed for pds - Multiple members of a single
PDS
>cannot be open for output at the same time'.

Cannot imagine MVS would allow multiple members to be written to the
same PDS at the very same time. Maybe your first site has special
system software running to handle this type of problem?

It is certainly not a virtue of SAS to facilitate techniques not supported
by
your operating system.

HTH? Fabrizio