What does a disposition of ( NEW, CATLG, DELETE) mean ?

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What does a disposition of ( NEW, CATLG, DELETE) mean ?

That this is a new dataset and needs to be allocated. to CATLG the dataset if the step is successful and to delete the dataset if the step abends.

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