In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/30/2007
at 09:44 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Irrelevant; in this case I did not have unlike attributes.
How is "Not unless everything in the SYSLIN concatenation is an HFS."
not relevant, other than the fact that it should have read *FS?
>3.9.7 Concatenating UNIX Files and Directories
Read the text more carefully. It doesn't say that it will convert
record formats.
>On the contrary, I have generally opposed this sort of prior
>censorship;
It isn't censorship to say "I don't have code to support that."
>the application should attempt the OPEN and report the result
Not in the case where the result is that the OPEN appears successful
but the application will later ABEND or produce incorrect results.
>Well enough for me.
Only because you're not doing what you want the binder to do. Try
concatenating SYSUB with *FS files where the record formats are
different and see how well it works.
>It appears
Appearances are decieving.
>that the DFSMS group has done its job well here; the Binder group
>simply has a deficiency of faith in DFSMS.
The BINDER is part of DFSMS. The problem isn't a lack of faith in
OPEN, it's that they know something that you don't know. They probably
should allow concatenations that are strictly Unix files, but mixing
Unix with conventional QSAM would require more code than that. Not
rocket science, but still work that has to be justified with customer
requirements and a business case.
--
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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