Gil, Yep, that's would be great to do
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 8, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 10:34:37 -0600, John McKown wrote: >> >> The problem is that there is no way to dynamically create a subdirectory >> via JCL. So I was thinking that a new PATHOPTS might be useful. Something >> like O_MKDIR which would tell the initiator to do the equivalent of a >> "mkdir -p /tmp2/&SYSUID/&JOBNAME" and then create the file in that >> subdirectory. > +1 > > The "-p" is important, but I wouldn't mind an additional DD statement > to create the directory. > > My preference, rather than extending PATHOPTS with a non-POSIX > option, would be to have it a suboption of PATHDISP, which is non-POSIX > anyway, and notionally similar to DISP. > > A similar wish for links. Why is there a DD option to create FIFOs, > but none to create links? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
