<rant> The whole idea of holding a lock on a file while a human being slowly edits it is so 1960s.
Since at least the mid 1970s, editors like emacs have loaded the file for editing and noted the timestamp. When the user attempts to save the file. the timestamp is checked again, and if it changed, the user is asked what to do. And, of course, if you use a distributed source control system like git, handling merge conflicts is a built-in and normal part of the process. It's very easy to imagine a zowe plugin that backs a source PDS with a git repo on a server (GitHub/BitBucket) and integrates editing with the whole git ecosystem of branches and pull requests. I say again: z/OS systems are too complex and mission-critical for us to continue using outdated tooling and engineering processes to maintain them. </rant> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
