On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:06:11 -0600 Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>In a recent note, Binyamin Dissen said: :>> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:52:21 +0300 :>> Get the JFCB, use it (DSNAME + VOLUME) to read the DSCB. :>I very much deplore it when people do that, then treat any :>unexpected result as a failure. It's an unwarranted flouting :>of the OS/360 I/O abstraction model. It prevents extension :>of the I/O system. For example, that sort of design now :>prevents using an HFS directory as the first catenand in :>SYSEXEC, while it works perfectly well as the second or later. :>Let the access method detect errors; don't invent your own. I believe that his intent was to detect a particular case. This will do it. Of course one can go on with the 001-whatever, but it may be a good idea to provide an intelligible error or, perhaps, a default member name. I do agree that this is overkill for application level code, but I doubt that such code is produced by Cole Software. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
