On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:28:19 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:

>Whether WAD, 'working as designed', or BAD, 'broken as designed', is
>perhaps moot.
>
>The problem of selecting one among several modules of the same name in
>different PDS[E]s for inclusion in an executable is much better
>addressed by using a binder LIBRARY control statement than by fiddling
>with concatenation sequences.
> 
Does HLASM provide a similar facility nowadays?  I know it has long
been wished for.  Similar concerns for STEPLIB, SYSPROC, SYSEXEC,
JCLLIB, ...

But in either case, adding an early catenand library to override one
or a few members, perhaps temporarily, may be preferable to editing
the source, whether SYSLIN or SYSLIN.

Library concatenation is a nicely orthogonal feature of z/OS;
conspicuously missing from UNIX, where each processor must
supply its own technique, whether a colon-separated list of
directory names, or a list of -I options, or perhaps other.

-- gil

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