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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories LE
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 31, 2016

Fail to open RRDS (V) in C language program

It is failed to open a RRDS(V: variable record length), would you share me some experience on this, or help me to know what's wrong and how to deal with it?

The "C" program is submitted through a JCL job in MVS.

And someone else met with a similar case:
https://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu/msg56574.html

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Jan 3, 2023
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.
  • Guest
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    Sep 21, 2020

    This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.

  • Guest
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    Aug 31, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #92399 in product z/OS.

  • Guest
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    Aug 31, 2016

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - LE
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - C/C++ Compilers
    Component - Miscellaneous
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    Aug 24, 2016

    This RFE is still being investigated.