On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:30:35 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > >B... As a case in point, I did some contract work at one >agency that required all jobs using tapes to contain JCL comments >listing, by data set name, all volumes to be mounted, in sequence, with >precise formatting requirements. > And no one thought to ask, "Why?"
Sometimes such practices are a legacy of systems converted from other OSes of other vendors that have less sophisticated data management facilities. ... They had a command that would show the >volumes for a data set, but the user still had to edit each job almost >every run. > Isn't that what the CATALOG is for? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
