On Wednesday, 06/24/2009 at 11:10 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds like the right place to me, so long as the more commonly used > utilities, the ones on the S disk, remain generally available. In fact, I was > under the misapprehension that the 193 disk was there for precisely this
> purpose. Sorry - I should have been more clear. I meant things like CPSYNTAX that are release-specific. Having them intermingled with CMS would make real-world migration more difficult to manage. One of the things we do in IBM that I do like is that a lot of product-related commands (e.g. cc, ditto) are simply execs (some compiled to MODULEs) that VMLINK to the appropriate disk to run the "real" version of the program. One could have CPSYNTAX EXEC on 190 that links to MAINT 193 to run the real CPSYNTAX. MAINT 193 would be, of course, a LINK to MAINT540 193 or MAINT530 193, or whatever matches the level of CP. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
