What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and
DISP=SHR for a dataset?

Answer Posted / shailendra 2008

disp=old means at the time of execution another job can't
use that file.after completion of job another job can use.

disp=shr at the timeof exection many user can use in read
mode.

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