On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:51 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:34:37 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >>I agree that IBM should provide a means to dynamically assign an alias to a >>ddname, but IMHO ATTACH is the wrong place to do it. DYNALLOC would seems to >>be the obvious place to do it. >> >An imporrtant use of alternate DDNAMEs is avoiding DDNAME conflicts: >concurrently running two utilities both coded to use (e.g.) SYSUT1, >but with different data sets allocated, perhaps to generated names. >I don't see how this can be accomplished with DYNALLOC aliasing. I'd >welcome an enlightening example.
Really? Perhaps I'm being dense, but I don't see how that helps in a batch environment. And I don't see how something like DDNAME= would help that in a TSO environment. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
