On Monday, 11/24/2008 at 07:13 EST, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, and it would be nice if there were easy to use and remember > administration and user tools. The syntax of some of the commands is not > the most natural that I have ever seen. "MODIFY USER nnn FOR userid" is > a good example. It reads like the userid is "nnn". I do not know where > anyone got the idea that the "verb predicate for subject" syntax was > good or natural. Is there any spoken language that uses this type of > syntax? (Where is that mother camel?) And this is perhaps the simplest > case.
We found over the Ages Past that beautiful syntax (words and music by Stephen Foster) is in the eye of the beholder. I remember when we were having arguments over SFS syntax (I think this was before the CMS Windows syntax debacle had fully hit the fan), there was a lot of knashing of teeth. Our conclusion: You can please some of the people some of the time if you're lucky. Since you can redesign the syntax until the cows come home, we picked a syntax and moved on. If you can't remember, try HELP SFSADMIN MODIFY. If you issue the command a lot and still can't remember, put it in an exec that implements a syntax you're comfortable with. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
