On Mon, 10 May 2010 16:33:30 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: >Probably from dataset names like 'FOOLISHLY.BARRED', which can't be >effectively processed by CVOL management routines. > Clearly, but why prohibit cataloguing 'FOO.BAR'?
>---------------------------------------------------- >Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>concerned, for example, why, when the programmer codes: >> >> //SYSUT2 DD DISP=(,CATLG),DSN=FOO.BAR >> >>... the data set is catalogued, whereas for: >> >> //SYSUT2 DD DISP=(,CATLG),DSN='FOO.BAR' >> >>... the JCL C/I changes the disposition to KEEP. In both cases, >>identical data set names are created. In each case the name was >>acceptable to CVOL. Why should the C/I make the distinction? >>CVOL can't be the explanation. Cui bono? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

