On Sat, 12 Jun 2021, at 20:53, Bob Bridges wrote: > Out of curiosity, what's the advantage?
Possibly none, but I thought that if an allocate was going to fail for some reason handling that before I started using libdefs would be easier. Otherwise I'd have to take more care which libdefs were then reversed. Having said that, for simple dialogs I only allocated a single pds then altlibbed/libdeffed that for each of the types of file within it, eg naming rexx execs Rxxxxxxx, skeletons Sxxxxxxx, panels Pxxxxxx etc. I probably assumed that all the libdefs/altlibs would work, if the alloc had worked. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Jeremy Nicoll > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 18:19 > > Twenty+ years ago I always used ALLOC to allocate the datasets > concerned, and only if that worked then issued LIBDEF/ALTLIB via their > ddname interfaces. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
