On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:33:20 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > >IIRC, IBM has had a simple COPY command ever since TSO/E - no JCL >needed. JCL is unpleasant only if you're not used to it; I've run on >Univac, Unisys, CDC, and other systems, and found JCL to be a good >compromise of simplicity and power. > I believe the last time I looked for COPY in the TSO/E Commands manual I couldn't find it. But it was long ago; I might have forgotten or things might have changed.
>And I find "cp" terribly confusing - to a neophyte does it stand for >copy, or compare, or compress (as in disk reorganization). It might make >more sense if I could assign an alias of COPY to it. > Whereas it's intuitively obvious that IEBGENER means "copy". Give me a break! You can assign whatever alias you choose (even IEBGENER) to "cp" with a single command; either as a shell alias or as a symbolic link. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
