In
<985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c2319906...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>,
on 07/01/2013
at 12:34 PM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]>
said:
>Implementation of standards is only useful if the feature is really
>needed. I can't think of a reason for needing NOTREADY with classic
>datasets on z/OS when SYSDSN will tell you whether the file is
>available or not.
The obvious reason is for detecting end of file without an explicit
test.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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