NOT CATLGD 2 JCL Error – How to avoid it?

Question When attempting to run the above Batch JOB/JCL, NOT CATLGD 2 JCL error occurs for the ddname OUTFILE. What is a NOT CATLGD 2 JCL Error? How to eliminate NOT CATLGD 2 JCL Error for a particular dataset?

The NOT CATLGD 2 JCL Error mostly occurs, when the dataset in question already exists. Here, OUTFILE is trying to create a new dataset OUTFILE.TEST.DATA. So, probably this dataset already pre-exists and is cataloged. To ensure such errors don’t occurs, we must purge/delete datasets using IEFBR14.

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