On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:00 PM, Skip Robinson wrote:
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. System programmers are from
Earth, where a mature installation with a few decades of history
under its
belt has to deal with a multitude of HLQs each associated with an
application and by implication a business unit, which BTW pays the
bills.
Our main production master catalog--the one I earlier mentioned
that was
created in 1983--has over a thousand aliases pointing (thankfully)
to a
far smaller number of user catalogs. We get by.
Catalogs on Mars or Venus may represent a simpler zoo to manage.
One day
mankind will get there and become transformed by the vision of what
life
was like in Eden. Meanwhile, back on the earthly ranch, we deal with
things as they are today. I'm not sure in which afterthought of
Creation
aliases and user catalogs emerged, but thanks to Whomever for the
kindness.
.
.
SKIP:
I am with you but with one small change. We (I) always had on
password (Update) on the mastercatalog (this was before RACF and
ACF2) Some jerk programmer always wanted to create (and catalog) a
tape with a non standard DSN (No HLQ) that put a stop to that.
I was relentless with programmers, in other words I was a hard ass.
Nobody knew what the password was except the sysprog group.
One thing that has distressed me is that IBM *USED to* provide a
CBIPO program that dealt nicely with changes to master catalogs. They
dropped it and the only substitute is on the CBTTAPE. IBM has really
lost it since the CBIPO. The support (of their new offering) in
Germany (at least that was the last time I tried support) was useless.
Ed
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