On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:06:03 +0000, john gilmore wrote:

>Scott Rowe writes:
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>Also, it's far better to have false conflicts (as exists now), then to have
true conflicts that are missed completely!
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>It is indeed a straw man

It is a straw man only if you can guarantee that there is no code 
outside of IBM code that serializes by issuing their own ENQ on SYSDSN. 
If you can't say that with certainty, it is not safe for IBM to change the 
way it works.

>no one has proposed abolishing the enq.

No, just changing it in an incompatible way.

There are other issues.  For example, when a job creates a new data 
set, there is not necessarily a volume at the time that the ENQ is issued.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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