On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:41:34 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 11:08, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> >> The ampersand for temporary dataset names is a JCL convention, not a TSO >> convention. > >Back in the late 1970s or maybe early 1980s there was a short-lived >APAR "fix" that added support for using the ampersand to specify >temporary datasets in IKJPARS. > There's no need for that. One can create a temp data set simply by omitting specification of DSNAME.
> ... It was quickly withdrawn - I speculate >because someone with the necessary design sense could see that there >would be a near endless series of followon fixes to make everything >work. > The challenge lies in creating dynamically the control blocks that the converter would have creating statically; PASS; referback; ENQ; ... What were they thinking?! Maybe in JES 5. But I want a way to rename/alias a DDNAME, scope within a step. >Maybe one of our IBMers here could dig up that APAR or even comment on >what happened. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
