In a recent note unmask]> said:

> Date:         Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:05:42 -0500
>
> All such schemes tend to run aground on the problem that the reason the
> ENQ was there in the first place was to avoid corrupting the dataset(s)
> in question. If there was no need for such serialization the ENQ
> wouldn't be there in the first place.
>
No.

There is, for example, no reason to prevent concurrent use of like
data set names on different volumes, yet it happens.  There is no
need; only design expediency.  Not all ENQs, nor all their effects,
are necessary.

--gil
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