In <[email protected]>, on 03/03/2015
at 03:30 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> said:
>That's probably a mistake. In JCL, I'm repeatedly frustrated that I
>can't code "//HOME DD PATH='/u/&SYSUID',..." to refer to an
>arbitrary user's HOME directory.
>OTOH, JCL would much benefit from a predefined JCL symbol, &SYSHOME
>expanding to the user's HOME directory from the RACF OMVS segment.
>In Rexx, it's easy enough: it's among the values set by "SYSCALL
>getpwuid".
>And allocation would likewise benefit from the ability to code
>relative paths and tilde expansion.
If it's not important enough[1] for someone to submit a requirement,
why is it important enough for IBM to implement.
[1] Personally I agree with you, but I'm not in a position to
submit an official requirement.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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