On 10/1/09 11:08 PM, "BISHOP, Peter" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've searched around and drawn a blank.  What I'm wondering is whether there
> is a method in Linux that emulates a z/OS DDNAME's facility of allowing
> multiple datasets to be concatenated and effectively treated as one file.

Not directly. You can cobble up something similar by using a pipe, eg:

cat file1 file2 file3 | program

Your program needs to be written to read from stdin, and process that as the
input stream, but you don't get a symbolic name to refer to multiple streams
of input or output.


> What we'd like to do is run a job on zLinux that accesses multiple z/OS
> datasets in one "file", as is done with the DDNAME concept with z/OS JCL.

The above trick will work with NFS mounted data.

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