This is the old horizontal versus vertical argument: should an application look the same regardless of the environment in which it is running or should all applications in an environment follow the conventions of that environment? That's especioally true for ISPF, wheree users often expect things to be ain separate fields rather than in a single field with punctuation.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How batch create a PDSE2 with Generations? On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:47:57 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >There are several RFE's (now Ideas) > Wow! But there should be a single *Unique* string representation of GDG and PDSE member generation manipulations,honored alike in: o JCL DD statements o TSO ALLOCATE o ISPF o BPXWDYN o XLC fopen() o OMVS /bin/cp o etc. ... sparing the programmer the need to code DYNALLOC text units. The parsing and interpretation should be done by SVC 99, not in code replicated and maintained in the various utilities/ see: o Genesis 11:1–9 o Conway's Law >https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-2788 > >https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-1955 > >https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-1732 > >https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-1612 > >https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-1565 > >I believe that all are in 'Future consideration' status. Additional votes >couldn't hurt. -- 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
