In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/26/2007
at 02:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>So, now I must RTFM "Using Data Sets" to find the section that states
>that JCL concatenation of HFS files _is_ supported, since OS/390?
>Earlier? So I can start YA PMR.
Not unless everything in the SYSLIN concatenation is an HFS. The
application determines whether and how concatenation of unlike
attributes is supported. But this sounds like a good candidate for
submitting a requirement, if you can come up with a business case.
>Why can't IBM's developers learn IBM's own rules?
What rules are they not following?
>And why must they go out of their way to write code to enforce the
>rules they invent in their delusions?
What is your evidence that they did in this case? It sounds to me like
something that you've asked for in the past; an intelligible message
instead of, e.g., an ABEND.
>Why not just read SYSLIN with QSAM and let it work or fail as it
>may.
Because then you'd whine about the ABEND or other error.
>If they don't deliberately try to make it fail, it will work.
How?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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