I guess that so long as I use UNIX in a "transient" way, then "no big deal". It would be if I tried to leave stuff in UNIX for a long time that others would get cranky.
One "problem" (which is likely due to a bad approach on my part) that I have with PDSes right now is you cannot "mod" onto the end of a member. I can do this with a UNIX file. So I could use UNIX as in interim storage medium, then copy each UNIX file to a unique member name in a PDS. And create a member named $INDEX to describe what is in each member. Just thinking out loud. On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:29 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:04:00 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > >One of my tasks is to teach the others in the group some UNIX. But > > I don't have any guidance on how much to teach. Just enough to > >do what is needed? Or enough to really use UNIX facilities to make > >like easier? > > It sounds like you will be using some ReXX and/or JCL to do these > conversions. I don't see what the big deal is if you use UNIX files > as part of the process. You don't really have to teach them much > for them to be able to do something similar for another VSAM file. > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
