Did the fix only hit PARSE, or was the syntax also supported in DAIR and DYNALLOC? I don't see much utility in being able to parse a temporary DSN if I can't use it for a dynamic allocation.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tony Harminc [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 7:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 11:08, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> 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. It was quickly withdrawn - I speculate because someone with the necessary design sense could see that there would be a near endless series of followon fixes to make everything work. Maybe one of our IBMers here could dig up that APAR or even comment on what happened. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
