On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:16:40 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: >>... when IEFBR14 is used to delete a data set ... >>Haven't we agreed here that IEFBR14 doesn't delete data sets? Hasn't >>IBM learned this yet? > >To my way of thinking, the statement in the preview is correct and >accurate. (Almost) Everyone at some point or other *uses* an EXEC >PGM=IEFBR14 job to delete data sets. The statement does not say that >IEFBR14 itself does the deletion. > The statement is needlessly restrictive and misleading to the novice (are there z/OS novices nowadays?). It could as well be any program as IEFBR14, or any other means of allocation (couldn't it?), such as TSO ALLOCate, BPXWDYN, or SVC 99. Simply, substuting "allocation" for "IEFBR14" would have been more precise. At least the writer could have included "for example" in the sentence.
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