What does a disposition of (NEW,CATLG,KEEP) mean?
Answer / guest
That this is a new dataset and needs to be allocated, to
CATLG the dataset if the step is successful and to KEEP but
not CATLG the dataset if the step abends. Thus if the step
abends, the dataset would not be catalogued and we would
need to supply the vol. ser the next time we refer to it.
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