-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VSAM Surprise
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:38:52 -0800, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP> I don't think that's a given. It's easy to see why this happens, and it's not too difficult to deal with it (as others have noted), but I think it violates the principle of least astonishment. Writing to a PDS as a PS dataset is almost certainly done by accident. It would be nice it IDCAMS would just say "You didn't want to do that.". <SNIP> And when I want to dump 5 records from a file that I point to? Or suppose that I want to refresh the directory blocks to NULL by copying, say 10 records? While you may not appreciate it, some of us do very creative things with utilities (when someone doesn't break them like IEBGENER for VB files). Unless it is absolutely necessary (or we *WANT* to take z/OS IDCAMS back to the way IDCAMS ran for DOS/VS...), don't do me any favors by making me have to jump through hoops to do exactly what I told IDCAMS to do. Regards, Steve Thompson -- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
