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

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