On Sat, 5 May 2018 10:01:23 -0500, Dan D wrote: >A very long time ago (over 30 years ago) I worked for a service bureau.\ >They had specific naming standards for their libraries when products were >installed (ie. SYSx.product.V01R03.LOADLIB). > >We couldn't have our customers continually changing JCL unless they wanted a >different version than what was installed so we created a system tool called >"Virtual Dataset Names". > >This worked very similar to how ALIAS names works although there was no "must >be in the same catalog" restriction. > ... >Our customers loved this as they could test NEW versions of products before >they became the default. > >If someone has the time, maybe they could take on this project and re-write >this cool tool ;-) > Damn! That "must be in the same catalog" restriction creates a lot of otherwise needless work. It should be relaxed.
(How much does JCLLIB help nowadays?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
