On 9/20/2020 10:27 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > works just fine. And in 40 years of writing programs on CMS, I’ve never > been stymied by 26 file mode letters.
You'd be surprised. Our code library for service for the MVS base is spread over 13 disks: 25k files split into 3 groups, 4 levels of each, plus 1 disk of macros from other products. 9 of them plus a code disk and a server disk might be accessed at once in the normal course of service. As the admin, sometimes I want all 13 at once to hunt through files, and for that I have to give up one little-used disk. > (Being able to have multiple disks > or directories accessed via union on a single file mode letter would be > useful.) Only so useful, though, unless the FSTs were finally moved up out of low storage to allow room for millions of files. ¬R
