-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's
<SNIP> If you don't understand what's wrong with PDS, re-read Etienne Thijsse's thread on attempting to delete a PDSE member. Or imagine my astonished dismay the first time I allocated a member with DISP=(OLD,DELETE) and watched the entire PDS vanish. Enough counterintuitive behaviors and "flaws" with recondite repairs add up to "wrong". <SNIPPAGE> I suppose that if I were to work with a VSAM file with DISP=(SHR,DELETE), that it would be JCL's fault when the VSAM file goes to the bit bucket. And if you were using a data base that you have to point to, and you wanted to delete a row and coded DISP=(OLD,DELETE), that would be JCL's fault also. Later, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
