In a recent note, Leonard Woren said: > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:25:37 -0800 > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:04:31PM -0500, Walt Farrell ([log in to unmask]) > wrote > : > > >> "Eight character tokenization is Mickey Mouse" - suggested for SHARE > > >> in Anaheim. > > >> > > > Likewise so for z/OS data set name qualifiers. And there it's > > > an artificial and senseless limitation, persisting only because > > > of inertia. > > > > Possibly inertia, but more likely because of the huge amount of code > > that would need to be rewritten in both IBM and vendor products, and > > possibly customer applications. > > Let's distinguish between "huge number of affected programs" and > "huge amount of code that would need to be rewritten." > > > A subset of the affected IBM code I can think of off the top of my head > > includes JCL processing, allocation, JES, DFDSS, catalog management, > > TSO/E, and RACF. And the modifications may be non-trivial in some cases. > No, the changes are all trivial. > > All that needs to be done is implement what I submitted a formal > REQUEST for (I think that was the term at that time) about 18 years > ago: Provide a single system subroutine to do dsname validation. > > In terms of user acceptance of different operating systems, this may > seem irrelevant but it's actually a big deal for a number of end > users. IBM's intransigence on this issue hurts IBM more than IBM can > possibly understand. Clearly, or they'd stop justifying not doing > this, and just do it. > The RoI depends on the life expectancy of MVS. If IBM expects MVS to be gone in five years, there's no point in doing it. If IBM expects MVS to last twenty more years, it must be done. Such prophecies entail part of their own fulfillment: if IBM fails to relax such antiquated restrictions, MVS is made less attractive to potential customers.
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