On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 20:52:11 -0500, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: > >For subsequent releases, I may opt for two versions, one with PDS, etc. to >accommodate you and the CBT-TAPE crowd, and the other perhaps using the Unix >side to get more in sync with the original product and to accommodate sysprogs >who might want to install it that way. In any case, I do not intend (and this >is pledge!) to abandon the old classic z/OS. > fopen() will handle fopen( "//'data.set.name(member)'" ) and fopen( "/UNIX/path/name" ) alike. open() only the UNIX path. So if you intend to support Classic data sets you are constrained to use fopen(). Then handling UNIX paths is no additional code.
(Of course this constrains your users to those respective syntactic forms. But you need some way of distinguishing the two species, and the C RTL convention is as good as any.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
