Summary of disposition processing

Table 1. Summary of Disposition Processing
DISP subparameters:			Disposition (if data set was allocated):
Status	Normal termination disposition	Abnormal termination disposition	At normal end of step	At abnormal end of step		At End of Job
Status	Normal termination disposition	Abnormal termination disposition	At normal end of step	Step abnormally terminated	If later allocation failed in step	At End of Job
NEW permanent data set or MOD treated as new	none	none	deleted	deleted	deleted
	KEEP		kept	kept
	DELETE		deleted	deleted
	CATLG		cataloged	cataloged
	PASS		passed	passed	passed	deleted
	PASS	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG	passed	passed	passed	If all steps terminated normally: deleted If a step terminated abnormally: third subparameter disposition
	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG	KEEP	second subparameter disposition	kept	deleted
		DELETE		deleted
		CATLG		cataloged
NEW temporary data set	none	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG	deleted	deleted	deleted
	DELETE		deleted
	PASS		passed			deleted
NEW data set in step to be automatically restarted	DELETE KEEP PASS CATLG UNCATLG	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG		deleted
NEW data set in step to be restarted at checkpoint	DELETE KEEP PASS CATLG UNCATLG	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG		kept, if being used when checkpoint was taken
OLD or SHR or MOD treated as old	none	none	kept	kept	kept
	KEEP		kept	kept
	DELETE		deleted	deleted
	CATLG		cataloged or, if new volumes were added, recataloged	cataloged or, if new volumes were added, recataloged
	UNCATLG		uncataloged	uncataloged
	PASS		passed	passed	passed	kept
OLD or SHR or MOD treated as old (continued)	PASS	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG	passed	passed	passed	If all steps terminated normally: kept, if originally old; deleted, if originally new If a step terminated abnormally: third subparameter disposition
	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG	KEEP	second parameter disposition	kept	kept, if step was receiving originally old data set; deleted, if step was receiving originally new data set
		DELETE		deleted
		CATLG		cataloged or, if new volumes were added, recataloged
		UNCATLG		uncataloged
OLD permanent data set passed to this job step	none	none	deleted, if data set was originally new; kept, if originally old	deleted, if data set was originally new; kept, if originally old
OLD data set in step to be automatically restarted	DELETE KEEP PASS CATLG UNCATLG	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG		kept
OLD data set in step to be restarted at checkpoint	DELETE KEEP PASS CATLG UNCATLG	DELETE KEEP CATLG UNCATLG		kept, if being used when checkpoint was taken