You can (in theory -- I have) create a dataset: A.B.C... Which would limit you to 22 levels. The level is not the limit: it's the combination of node length (8 bytes) and DSN length (44) that determines 'levels'. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:36:21 To: <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:08:59 -0600, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: > >What I envision is a central system catalog that any file name created >(reasonably or virtually no limitations on file names, level of hierarchies or >any other such limitations [obviously more, much more than 44 characters and 5 >levels]) > There is no "limitation ... of ... 5 levels" Hasn't been for a long time; perhaps never was. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
