Or maybe just for a PDSE since PDSes are basically moribund. This is just a weird thought, feel free to call me an idiot. But there are two "classes" of members in a PDS at present. There are normal member and there are ALIASes. It generally seems that an ALIAS does not contain a TTR per se, but actually contains the actual member name. Am I remembering correctly? If so, then why not extend the ALIAS concept (a member name which points to another member name) to a new class of member, which I will call a CONCAT member. This is a member name which contains multiple member names, perhaps in the user data area. When you OPEN a CONCAT member for reading, what you get is the contents of all the members listed in the order listed.
No, I can't think of a reason why this should be over a standard concatenation of DD statements. But I've only had a few hours sleep per night for the past week and so my mind is misfiring. -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
