On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Nope - I just double checked the documentation previously posted. The COBOL dynamic allocation via the ASSIGN can be _one_ DSN xor _one_ PATH, not a concatenation. > > -- gil > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown
