John Eells wrote:
Steve Comstock wrote:
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* Two new options on Primary Option Menu:
12 - z/OS System programmer facilities
13 - z/OS application programmer facilities
[all ISPF screen shots of Primary Option Menu
updated]
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If this refers to the panels named [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], they're not
new. Perhaps the ISPF team made the modified [EMAIL PROTECTED] panel with these
selections the default so they always appear now, but the panels
themselves have been around a long time. (I wrote them about 10 years
ago.)
You're right. The docs say they had been hidden but are
now available by default from the primary option menu.
Also worthy of note with the Binder, I think (from the z/OS R9 GA
announcement):
"RECFM=U verification is designed to provide the same protection against
writing programs into non-program PDS libraries as is provided for PDSE
libraries. The binder is now designed to write programs only into
libraries having an undefined record format (RECFM=U), to help prevent
changing the DCB attributes of other libraries, unless you specify that
it should do so (for example, by specifying RECFM=U on a DD statement)."
I agree that's a great safety valve. (What instructor hasn't seen
his or her students wipe out some libraries?) It didn't make my
list because I considered it a long-overdue feature that won't
change the way applications programmers work. But it is nice to
have. Finally.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
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