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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!
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It's great, Tim, but is it really a IEFBR14 enhancement, or is it really
a change in ALLOCATION??? :-)
Rick
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