Yes, that is how TSO uses UADS. It's supported, but is anybody still using it?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2022 3:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Million Years On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:27:14 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote: >Wasn't an official utility, but IPOUPDTE was provided with the CBIPO >software delivery to do that job. > Did it update-in-place? Does it work on PDSE? I understand that UADS was (is?) maintained by update-in-place and that if a member needed to be extended another member was created distinguished by an eighth character appended to the TSO ID. I understand that was the principal reason for limiting TSO IDs to seven characters. >On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 1:25 PM Steve Beaver wrote: > >> A million years ago the was an IBM Batch Utility to change strings >> >> In a PDS. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
