Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Linklst; 6 of 1/half dozen of the other? > > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:34:25 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > > > Current product in question is FDRABR. He has also done Syncsort like > >this. Both are needed early in the IPL and if there is a way to avoid > >link/lpa listing them, I don't know it. > > In many cases, I do prefer ISV in the system search concatentation, I > >don't like messing with large scale JCL search and change projects. > > > Would aliases help here? I've tried to promote fully qualified aliases to have a static name in the JCL and other places while supporting versioning in the actual dataset name. It's been successful with a different set of products/co-worker, but he recently took a job elsewhere. The alias concept seems to be more confusing to the remaining folks. :( The guy who left was the boss, right now we have no real authority (boss) I can appeal to correct my irritation with the other guy. And politically I can't really assert arbitrary direction on my own yet. > > > If a product is not widely used, I prefer using a PROC to avoid > >widespread dataset references. > > > Yah, but you know users; they'll circumvent; copy the PROC > to edit it, etc. > > >> I would rather have people steplib to a dataset that contains the > >> current version. Yes it may be extra work on the security side but > if > >> you have good conventions for names it does work well. > >> > >> The main reason is that I have run into vendors that use the same > >> module name and it causes too much loss time trying to figure out > what > > > Of course, STEPLIB is no solution if a single job step must > ATTACH programs from both vendors. TASKLIB? > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
