What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and
DISP=SHR for a dataset?
Answer Posted / sunil
disp= old ...it will give exclusive use of dataset.
disp= shr....multiple job can use the dataset concurrently..
but in both case, while writing , it will overwrite to old
dataset..i.e, old data will be lost.
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