On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:29:47 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: >> On Nov 16, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> How is this still a thing!? >> >> What's a "utility"? IEBGENER and IEBCOPY and Rexx support VB. I'd >> substitute "not all" for "no”. >IBM won’t re-open the code for IEBUPDTE its stabilized. Plus it was never >designed for VB records. >IBM didn’t want to reship the entire member (IEBCOPY) . >This was design issue (architect) of IBM’s >This has been an issue since day 1 of SMP. IBM its in your corner. > And: o SMP/E has ++MACUPD and ++SRCUPD but no facility to UPDate general text files, even FB 80. o I don't believe PTFS using IEBUPDTE can be RESTORED.
But now that z/OS has UNIX System Services, there's patch(1) which has no FB 80 limitation and has an option to undo a patch. No need to re-open IEBUPDTE when there's a better featured alternative available. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
