In a recent note, Don Ault said: > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:12:20 -0500 > > I contacted the FTP owners and here is what they had to say: > We have the same code FTP code base supporting the various z/OS > environments (USS, TSO, Batch, etc.) > I had suspected as much from my observation that the U** client is so different from clients in other vendors' UNIXen.
> FTP issues a RACROUTE EXTRACT to retrieve the TSO prefix and, if found, > uses it > as the HLQ; otherwise, the userid is used as the HLQ. Looking at the > release IDs > in the code, we've been doing this since TCP V3R1 (i.e., this is ancient > code). > > So if we were to change this behavior, it could cause existing code to fail. > In > general, we don't make incompatible changes and try to find a way to accept > new > requirements that allow compatibility to persist. > Ah, but you misunderstand. The FTP behavior is clever and allows greatest compatibility with TSO. My complaint is with the behavior of /bin/cp, presumably derived from the underlying CRTL. Thanks, gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
