In <[email protected]>, on 11/07/2013
   at 08:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>If so, then the answer is that not all datasets have a dataset name.
>UNIX datasets have a file name (no DSN). SYSOUT datasets have 
>SYSOUT attributes (no DSN).

Actually, SYSOUT data sets do have dsnames, but a normal application
doesn't have code dealing with them.

>I haven't reported this specific case; I've come to expect, and
>become weary of IBM's stock answer; some form of "WAD; that's not 
>a data set."

If a standard service aid or utility can't handle PATH=, I would call
it broken as designed (BAD).
 
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