Close with disp ?

I was converting a 35 year old OS Cobol program to
Enterprise Cobol today. All the CLOSE statements in
this program had CLOSE file-name WITH DISP. I don't
happen to have a 35 year old manual and this is not
valid for Enterprise Cobol. Does anyone remember
what CLOSE WITH DISP was supposed to do?

Page 443 of the OS/VS COBOL program says that "CLOSE WITH DISP" means to use
whatever is on the DISP parameter of the JCL - so it sounds like you can jus
t
remove it and things should work "as expected".

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Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Ron S" <SpamStopper@NoSpam.Org> wrote in message
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> I was converting a 35 year old OS Cobol program to
> Enterprise Cobol today. All the CLOSE statements in
> this program had CLOSE file-name WITH DISP. I don't
> happen to have a 35 year old manual and this is not
>  valid for Enterprise Cobol. Does anyone remember
> what CLOSE WITH DISP was supposed to do?
>
>

> Page 443 of the OS/VS COBOL program says that "CLOSE WITH DISP" means to use
> whatever is on the DISP parameter of the JCL - so it sounds like you can j
ust
> remove it and things should work "as expected".
>

Thanks. I did remove it and all was well but I was just curious as to what i
ts
purpose was years ago. Not much, it would seem.

Ron S wrote: 
>
>
> Thanks. I did remove it and all was well but I was just curious as to what
 its
> purpose was years ago. Not much, it would seem.
>
>

As a PS to that, it is too bad that some of those old tape methods left
Cobol.  They would work very well for things like CD"s and DVD's on a
PC, for example. With properly working label records and mount dismount
close commands, someone could actually do proper backup of data without
leaving Cobol. The Rewritable DVD is quite a neat device.  I think it
will be arround for a while, at least as a prototype.

Donald

Ron S wrote: 
>
>
> Thanks. I did remove it and all was well but I was just curious as to what
 its
> purpose was years ago. Not much, it would seem.
>
>
A wag ... close with rewind vs close with dismount type of thing at the
JCL level?

Donald