>If you don't understand what's wrong with PDS, re-read Etienne Thijsse's thread on attempting to delete a PDSE member.
I didn't say I didn't understand, I said that you had to do so. Understand their limitations, and how to fix them when they break. They're not going away. >Or imagine my astonished dismay the first time I allocated a member with DISP=(OLD,DELETE) and watched the entire PDS vanish. That is documented in so many places. The JCL Manual/User's Guide (or whatever IBM's calling it/them now), for example, and nowhere does it say DISP works at the member level. The explanation of DISP is at the dataset level, everywhere I've looked. >Enough counterintuitive behaviors You can't blame PDS(E) for 45+ years of documented behaviour. >and "flaws" with recondite repairs add up to "wrong". Possibly, but there are many cases in z/OS where you are stuck with them. I'm not a fan of PDSE, anymore, since IBM broke them circa 2003. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
