In <3582382321328690.wa.zatlas1yahoo....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 11/24/2013 at 11:43 AM, "Ze'ev Atlas" <zatl...@yahoo.com> said:
>I do not care so much about the actual implementation of the idea >and its limitations. Surely, with two antiquated OSes like z/OS >and Unix (form the nineteen sixties and seventies) there are >limitations which both OS publishers dare or dare not (as it may >be) correct. The issue is the concept, which, in my opinion, is >better in the z/OS world. And the concept is that the computer should >know where the file is, not the user. I don't see a conceptual difference between /foo/bar/baz and DSN=FOO.BAR.BAZ. There is a conceptual difference in the working directory, and that is that the TSO prefix is limited to 7 characters. Dealing with a file in an unmounted file system in *ix is analogous to dealing with an uncataloged data set, or one cataloged in an unconnected user catalog. >And the concept is that the computer should know where the file is, >not the user. That's the *ix philosophy more than the MVS philosophy. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN