On 2017-12-20, at 06:15:40, John McKown wrote:
>>
>> ps. Sure hope it allows one to build concatenations... Gonna be a lot of
>> experimenting with this.
>
> Glad to be of service. I have never tried to allocate a concatenation
> using the ASSIGN. But it is simple with BPXWDYN.
>
TSO ALLOCATE will allocate a concatenation with
ALLOCATE DSN(dsn1,dsn2,dsn3,...)
(but what if they're on different volumes?)
BPXWDYN requires several ALLOCs and a CONCAT.
Grrr! But the programmer must special-case the single-catenand case.
Why can't BPXWDYN (actually, SVC 99, I suppose) recognize that case,
do very little, and succeed rather than failing?
Only with BPXWDYN can I allocate a mixed concatenation of Classic
data sets and UNIX files/directories. COBOL ASSIGN?
-- gil
