On Jun 16, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
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I can't conceive of a production environment where you would want
USERCAT choice to be left to users or application programmers rather
than having it enforced via ALIAS definitions for HLQ(s);
otherwise, you
inevitably end up with user errors creating "lost" cataloged data sets
that can't be found in the expected catalog.
Joel,
I *think* in VS1 you had to have the cat (catalog) parameter .
It took me 2 years of fighting to get it into the standards manual.
Luckily we had Fileaid and the change was trivial. I think I did it
the week after it was approved in the standards manual.
The people were just hung up on having it and I could never find out
why. I know back in the old MVS days sometimes stepcats were needed
when messing around with the catalog but that has gone at least 99
percent with the dinosaurs. I know stepcat/jobcat are no longer
honored but in the far distant passed at times they were needed(at
times), I was scared when IBM announced they "retirement" but since
IBM fixed the problems they corrected I don't have a problem anymore
with their banishment.
Ed
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