On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Gibney, Dave wrote:
>
>> Either or both are more keystrokes than I care to do frequently on the
>> fly. Typos happen.
>> Write once, cut'n'paste forever.
>>
>
> But you're going against the lead systems programmer very early in my
> career (1983). One of the grunt-work things I had to do was create an
> alias for each new TSO id. I was taught the procedure as:
>
> a) Get the next paper from the pile of new TSO id requests
> b) Logon and issue a command such as:
> DEFINE ALIAS(NAME('XYZ123') RELATE('ICFCAT.SYS123'))
>
> I immediately coded that into a clist so I would make less typos. The
> lead lady saw me working one day and said No, you need to type the entire
> command out each time. Why? So you won't forget it. What if your clist
> fails to work?
>
Well, maybe "what if your CLIST library is lost?" would be a better
question. Of course, most sysprogs believe in redundancy. I XMIT all my
libraries to separate PS datasets. Which I then BINary download to my
desktop. Which I then copy to a USB "thumb" drive. Which I then take home
and put on my home Linux system (in ${HOME} and on both of my NAS boxes
which are RAID protected). I do the same, but with PAX for my work UNIX
directories. And the aforementioned are in addition to the normal DFHSM
and ADRDSSU backups which are kept on the z/OS system.
>
> Well, of course I ignored that :)
>
>
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John McKown
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