On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:19:10 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > ... I’d love to share my more esoteric issues like unable to allocate a > dataset because of a hashing problem with a VTOC IX caused by a batch job > creating crappy data set names. > It's easy to create "crappy data set names" by calling dynalloc from an assembler program. Either: o Allocation should be modified to prohibit creating such names, even though that would probably break existing customer code. Or: o VTOC indexing should be modified to deal with such names, even though that would break existing VTOC indices.
The OS should not rely on: o The difficulty of creating such names with an 029 keypunch. - Consider multi-punch. - Consider hexadecimal strings. o Paper documentation's calling such names invalid, despite lack of enforcement. o IBM experts' calling such names invalid in fora such as this, despite lack of enforcement. The Black Team had the right idea. In the day they were respected for that. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
