On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:05:30 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote:
>
>And I also agree that 'djflajfasljkdf' should be ASIS, so that IF I have
>to allocate a DOS DSN on a shared volume, I CAN from within a TSO
>session. But I am instead forced to use JCL and do it there as
>DSN='PAYROLL run for Tuesday',VOL=SER=VSE001,UNIT=3390....
>
In fact, I believe that with the suitable setting of a certain
PARMLIB option you can catalog it and not need to specify VOL=SER.
It shouldn't be a PARMLIB option; it should be a JCL option (or
perhaps a RACF option) so it could be enabled or disabled on a
user-by-user basis.
I'll go beyond that. Characters between apostrophes (except for
ampersand) should be devoid of any metasemantics. For example:
FOO.BAR(+1) Means the next generation of a GDG.
FOO.BAR('+1') Should mean a member of a PDS (quoted '+' does
not have the special meaning of exposed '+').
'FOO.BAR(+1)' Means a physical sequential data set (quoted
parentheses do not have the special meaning of
exposed parentheses.)
-- gil
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