Gil, Yep a lot of living with it instead of redesigning / changing it, seen in network engineering
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Jan 8, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
