> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Wright
>
> Peter Hunkeler wrote on 06/14/2006 08:09:32 AM:
>
> > While being correct, it is highly missleading. The first two
sentences
> > of the Explanation as well as the System Programmer Response talk
> > about a missing DD statement, not about attributes. So does the
message text.
> >
> > Why not say the data set has incorrect attributes, right in the
> > message text?
>
> It looks like AHL084I and a few friends went into GTF in the
> early 1990s.
> There is no message that talks about the failure of the tests
> in question for a specific ddname. AHL084I is produced
> because, after filtering out ddnames that could not be used
> on the basis of the tests described, no candidates remain.
> It is possible that AHL084I was the consequence of forgetting
> an output ddname entirely. Your suggestion, interpreted in
> this context, is to add a new message that points at ddname
> IEFRDER or GTFOUTaa and says something specific about them.
> We'll add that to a (long) list of things that might improve
> service aids, reduce confusion using them, and reduce the
> number of PMRs that result.
Yes, please. Issuing a message that says, in effect, that no DDNAME was
found when at least one of the DDNAMEs documented as "required" is
present, is false and misleading.
-jc-
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