On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:50:51 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote:

>I think it is needed.  I was doing some assembler work and wanted to store
>source in zUnix.. no joy.
> 
Is there a problem beyond naming suffix and case conventions?
Is it APARable?

Long ago, I needed APARs for misbehavior of NOTE/POINT.  The
problems could be triggered by mixed PDS and UNIX directories
in the SYSLIB concatenation, particularly when there were nested
COPY commands.

>It is annoying to have source with suffix like .asm and have to store it in
>a pds without it.  Bleh!!
> 
Cross assemblers from various ISVs provide better facilities for suffix
mapping and case conversion.

And if the OP is familiar with the extensions of gmake, particularly
VPATH, he'll find z/OS make a disappointment.  But I doubt one can
use any make utility with PDS(E)s.

We might wish that z/OS (actually, MVS 5.x.x then) had provided a
kernel and relied on open source shell and utilities.

-- gil

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