On 12 Feb 2008 04:57:05 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >on 02/07/2008 > at 09:10 AM, "Veilleux, Jon L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>I remember having mods to open that prevented a user from opening a PDS >>sequentially. Now we use an OEM product for that purpose. It should not >>be allowed by default. I could never understand why IBM hasn't done >>anything about this for so many years. > >Because it would break a lot of existing code. > Way back when, I submitted a requirement to SHARE that an installation be able to disable the overriding of DCB characteristics of existing datasets on OPEN OUTPUT by parmlib or sysgen (it may have been that long ago). I think I had the statement that this allowed the one percent of installation that wanted the ability to destroy their data sets to continue to do so.
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