In a recent note, Charles Mills said:
> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:41:40 -0700
>
> <rant>
> What a piece of #&%#&! Whatever happened to OS/360's vaunted device
> independence? ...
> <\rant>
>
Gone with the wind. All too many programs check for device
type, F1 DSCB, etc and fail if it's something they're not
designed for. The fallback position should be simply
OPEN; GET/PUT; ... CLOSE; and let the chips fall where they
may, not decline to process the data set.
Even members of this list have advocated such device
sensitivity in the name of Performance.
Try, e.g.
ALLOCATE DD(INPUT) PATH('...') ...
TRANSMIT INFILE(INPUT) ...
... fails. Why?. Yet it works if an empty legacy data set is
catenated before the HFS file.
-- gil
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