Lindy Mayfield wrote:
I haven't looked at any IDCAMS documentation in a really long time.
Going through the docs in the DFSMS bookshelf it appears that the book I
need is "DFSMS AMS for Catalogs".
It appears this is the right one, but why does it say "...for Catalogs?"
>
Thanks!
Lindy
...
Because up to a decade ago there used to be two different kinds of MVS
catalogs, ICF and VSAM, and because of differences in allowed command
syntax two different AMS manuals, "AMS for VSAM Catalogs" and "AMS for
ICF Catalogs". Now that the ancient VSAM catalogs are gone and only ICF
catalogs remain, there is only one version of the AMS manual and someone
who wasn't thinking clearly only dropped the "ICF" from the title and
left the "for Catalogs", making the title highly misleading. From the
user's perspective AMS deals more with datasets than with catalogs.
Even knowing the historical evolution, my first reaction on seeing the
new name was that this was intended to be the manual describing how to
use AMS to Manage and Recover Catalogs, but that is a totally different
beast.
--
Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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