On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
> Been through that section of the PG half a dozen times. I see no references > at all to prepending userids. I come down in the flowchart to "z/OS XL > C/C++ > opens an OS file." > Agreed ... I miss read your post. Sorry about that. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:49 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: C and LE -- when prepend userid on file names? > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > No doubt this is wonderfully documented somewhere but I am sitting > > here tearing my hair out. > > > > I have a C++ *batch* program that I could not get to open a > > conventional z/OS dataset by name to save my life until I finally > > figured out it was prepending my userid onto the specified name a la TSO. > > > > If I have encountered this behavior before and/or how to turn it on > > and off I have forgotten. It sure does not jump out at me from the > manuals. > > > > IBM LE C running in batch: what determines whether it prepends your > > userid onto a conventional z/OS dataset name? > > > > Look in the C/C++ programming guide in the chapter (5 i think) called > opening files, sub chapter title 'How z/OS XL C/C++ determines what kind of > file to open' > > Sam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
