On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:11:08 +0000, john gilmore wrote:
>The syntax of the DD-statement DSNTYPE = JCL parameter, viz.,
>
>DSNTYPE= {LIBRARY}
>{HFS }
>{PDS }
>{PIPE }
>{EXTREQ }
>{EXTPREF}
>{LARGE }
>{BASIC }
>
>is such that DSNTYPE=LARGE and DSNTYPE=EXTREQ, EXTENDED requested or
>DSNTYPE=EXTPREF, EXTENDED preferred, are mutually exclusive. Round 7 (or is
>it 8?) goes to Mr. Jaffe.
>
"requested" or "required"?
>The name 'DSNTYPE' in any case problematic.
>
As you note:
>One of my students, a Finn whose English is excellent but not native, guessed
>(I thought plausibly by extension from DSN=) that DSNTYPE=LARGE meant that an
>elementary dataset name more than eight characters in length was enabled.
>
Indeed. The use-vs.-mention distinction, so often misunderstood
colloquially, e.g., "I didn't mention his name."
A Harvard logician named Quine
Sported a marvellous line:
He said, "'"Boston"' names 'Boston'"
And "'Boston' names Boston,
But 'nine' does not designate nine."
Why wasn't it "DSTYPE" to spare the confusion? But even
in these pages, I sometimes see "DSNAME" where the writer
obviously intends "data set", e.g., "My DSN is on a 3390-9."
-- gil
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