The Output Disposition panel shown in Figure 1 is the standard end panel for many SCLM functions when you have sent output to a data set. It allows you to determine the disposition of the report or messages data set previously displayed. You can choose between keeping the data set, deleting the data set, printing and keeping the data set, or printing and deleting the data set.

Figure 1. Output Disposition (FLMDEXT)

When you send output to a data set, the database contents, architecture, build, and promote functions display a report data set if they complete with an acceptable return code. The migration utility displays a message data set because its report is a set of messages.

If you allocate the output to a data set and 99 data sets have already been allocated, SCLM either overlays a new data set over an old one or concatenates a new data set with an old one. To avoid this problem, delete old data sets to allow allocation of new data sets.

If error conditions occur in any of these functions (except build translator errors) and SCLM routes messages to a data set, SCLM displays the message data set, not the report data set. In either case, the Output Disposition panel appears after you finish browsing the displayed data set.

The view, edit, library, sublibrary management, and audit and version utility functions do not create report or message data sets and, consequently, do not display the Output Disposition panel.