Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-24 Thread Steve Smith
Nothing I said was meant as criticism of the OP's question. And I said nothing like your imaginary quote about anything. What I did mean to imply is that DD DDNAME= is nothing like pipes, nor any sense of "routing" I know of. As for its usefulness, I have myself found it useful in some (rare)

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:14:10 -0400, Charles Mills wrote: >there is often a good reason were you to understand the OP's >entire situation and constraints. I agree. In this case, I don't remember the OP telling us what his situation and constraints are, though there was a lot of speculation

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:14:10 -0400, Charles Mills wrote: >Au contraire. It is often useful. I see it used in cataloged procs all the >time. And I would be confident that Itschak knows what it does. > However, I once tried to use it by overriding a DD in a cataloged PROC with DDNAME= so I could

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-24 Thread Charles Mills
n were you to understand the OP's entire situation and constraints. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equival

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
du/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 21:38:31 +, Seym

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? Well, yet another typical IBM-MAIN thread. Speculation, tangents, assumptions, misconceptions, irrelevancies, etc. As to the long-forgotten original question, JCL DDNAME is a rarely useful feature. It is supported by neither DYNALLOC

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Steve Smith
Well, yet another typical IBM-MAIN thread. Speculation, tangents, assumptions, misconceptions, irrelevancies, etc. As to the long-forgotten original question, JCL DDNAME is a rarely useful feature. It is supported by neither DYNALLOC nor ALLOCATE. I'm not sure what the OP thinks it does, but it

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 21:38:31 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: When does SMP/E ATTACH two utilities concurrently? AFAIK it only attaches them consecutively. I know that if I DDDEF SYSPRINT SYSOUT, SMP/E uses generated DDNAMEs instead and reports those names in SMPLOG or SMPOUT. I have no assurance

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? I wish people would usr the traditional ">" quotation marks to distinguish citation depth. On Wed, 23 Oct 20

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
I wish people would usr the traditional ">" quotation marks to distinguish citation depth. On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:25:47 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I've written plenty of code that invokes language processors and other >utilities in a batch environment, as have others, and I'd be very

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? My game is to use what the client is licensed to. ITschak בתאריך יום ד׳, 23 באוק׳ 2019, 23:26, מאת Seymour J Metz ‏: > I've written plenty of code that invokes language processors and other > utilities in a batch environment, a

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:34:37 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I agree that IBM should provide a means to dynamical

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread ITschak Mugzach
ssion List on behalf > of Tom Marchant <000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:01 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? > > On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:51 -0500, Paul Gilmartin

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
ct: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:51 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:34:37 +, 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

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Paul, this is just an example. In the specific case, i changed the original dd name.we does a lot of budget shrinking projects by converting expensive products to cheaper ones, or even to alternatives such as rexx depending on client requirements. The issue is that the conversion program we

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:02:03 +0300, ITschak Mugzach wrote: >For example, you have a ddname concatenating five datasets. now you need to >sort the files, so you need to allocate them to SORTIN. Can do, but piping >is much better. > Why is your DDNAME not SORTIN to start with? (I know there are

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread ITschak Mugzach
For example, you have a ddname concatenating five datasets. now you need to sort the files, so you need to allocate them to SORTIN. Can do, but piping is much better. ITschak On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:52 PM Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:51 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:34:37 +, 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

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:34:37 +, 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

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:13 +0300, ITschak Mugzach wrote: >Jcl allows "routing" on DD name to another using DDNAME= opeerand. is there >an equivalent in tso? I remember TSO PIPE, but this was not a standard TSO >command (CBTTAPE maybe). What problem are you trying to solve? -- Tom Marchant

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List on behalf of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? Jcl allows "routing" on DD name to another using DDNAME= opeerand. is there an equivalent in tso? I remembe

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Technically it os not an issue, but I would expect a native support for tso. בתאריך יום ד׳, 23 באוק׳ 2019, 13:54, מאת ITschak Mugzach ‏< imugz...@gmail.com>: > Jcl allows "routing" on DD name to another using DDNAME= opeerand. is > there an equivalent in tso? I remember TSO PIPE, but this was

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:13 +0300, I

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:13 +0300, ITschak Mugzach wrote: >Jcl allows "routing" on DD name to another using DDNAME= opeerand. is there >an equivalent in tso? I remember TSO PIPE, but this was not a standard TSO >command (CBTTAPE maybe). > Perhaps the elusive CMS/TSO Pipelines, formerly

Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Jcl allows "routing" on DD name to another using DDNAME= opeerand. is there an equivalent in tso? I remember TSO PIPE, but this was not a standard TSO command (CBTTAPE maybe). ITschak -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| *