I would like to draw your attention to the z/OS 1.11 announcement letter, now available here:
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS209-242/ENUS209-242.PDF There's a lot to like, including the new z/OS Management Facility under discussion in another thread. However, I am most excited that IEFBR14 is being enhanced. This is truly historic! If you are unfamiliar with IEFBR14, you can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 Quite simply, IEFBR14 is a program intended to do nothing. This program holds the world record, at least unofficially, for highest number of reported (and corrected) defects per line of code. It started life (generously) as three lines of code, i.e. just a single instruction. It's slightly longer now. Here's what the z/OS 1.11 announcement letter says: "In z/OS V1.11, when IEFBR14 is used with DD statements to delete a data set that has been migrated by DFSMShsm, Allocation is now designed to pass the delete request to DFSMShsm under most circumstances so the data set can be deleted without first recalling it. This can take significantly less time and consume fewer system resources than waiting for the data set to be recalled before being deleted, thereby helping speed batch processing." How cool is that! - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
