On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 23:16:28 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
>Don,
>
>Who needs a parmlib option as the default s/b yes (or display). I
>can't think of a circumstance where it shouldn't, others?
>
There are conceivable circumstances in which an undesirable flood
of messages would result. But then it would be easy enough to
override a default of "yes".
OTOH, one of my pervasive dissatisfactions with MVS is its coarse
granularity: it provides options in PARMLIB that apply to all steps
in all jobs for all users that would be better controlled for individual
steps in individual jobs of individual users. REFRPROT is such an
example: admins can either assert it in PARMLIB, where it may
have an unacceptable adverse effect on some users, or leave it
disabled and deny all other users its benefit. Rather, I'd like to be
able to use:
//STEP EXEC PGM=FOO,REFRPROT={YES|NO},...
Likewise, I'd prefer:
//SYSUT42 DD DISP=OLD,CONFLICT={SILENT|REPORT},...
That option should likewise be available on SVC 99, and on
the ENQ macro itself.
I know; it would be the hard way. But it would also be the
right way.
-- gil
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