On 29 Nov 2013 14:02:35 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In <[email protected]>, on >11/29/2013 > at 11:47 AM, "Ze'ev Atlas" <[email protected]> said: > >>Again, you discuss the shortcoming of a specific system while I have >>a broad view. > >You're specific systems; I'm still trying to figure out what it is in >them that you want to change. > >>There would always be the need to disambiguate. > >Then what behavior do you want to change? For normal use in Unix, >including z/OS, and for legacy z/OS data sets, the user just gives a >name and the system figures out where it is. > >>That's correct and that's where I took the idea from. That concept >>needs improvements > >No doubt, but so far you haven't identified any defect that a new type >of catalog would resolve. > >>Another great idea from the z/OS that deserve implementation in >>that context (i.e. Central System Catalog) is the famous GDG. >>Whenever I explain the concept to my Unix friends they agree that >>such a brilliant idea should have been implemented in Unix as well. > >They'd do better stealing the idea from DEC, specifically from VMS. > There is at least one shell that runs on HP-UX that implement a GDG like facility with just a gnnnn instead of a g0000v00. What was the VMS facility like?
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