On 11/6/2013 9:54 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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.
When I first looked at *nix, I did not find either cp, or any alias capability. The standard copy was pip.
When IEBGENER was released, it was not the only utility capable of copying a data set; e.g., there was IEHMOVE. Which one should have been named COPY?
IBM did users a favor by (mostly) not using obvious names. When I worked at ADR, the help test asked for assistance with a problem they couldn't solve - the user has a CoBOL program that invoked the sort, but kept blowing up no matter how large a region was assigned to it. The user had chosen to name his program SORT! Ten years later, at AMS, the help desk asked for assistance with a CoBOL program that kept running out of memory.....
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