DD Statement - new data set

This page describes how DD statements can be used to allocate new permanent data sets.

The importance of cataloguing data sets to be kept beyond the life of the job was mentioned on the first page of this sequence and that practice is applied here, with the DISP= operand being the same as DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE).

The LRECL=, RECFM= and BLKSIZE= operands are discussed in more detail on the next page.