John McKown wrote:
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.
Then it's back to that DEFINE command that I can apparently still type
today without thinking! The clist was in a common system programmer
library, probably as unlikely to be lost as SYS1.LINKLIB (knock on wood).
And you're right, XMIT, USB drives, etc. have made it easy to back up
personal datasets like the JCL people take from job to job. A long time
ago I had a "just in case I get fired" 3480 tape at home.
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