What did Emerson say about consistency?

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
From a recent experiment: READY allocate dsn('sys1.maclib','sys1.modgen') IKJ56700A ENTER FILE NAME - foo

Re: What did Emerson say about consistency?

2014-04-02 Thread John Gilmore
He said, as you very well know, that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. IIRC, this command once allocated only one dataset at a time. Someone pointed out that the underlying facility it uses can allocate more than one at a time, that this is advantageous, and that an

Re: What did Emerson say about consistency?

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:48:07 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: IIRC, this command once allocated only one dataset at a time. Someone pointed out that the underlying facility it uses can allocate more than one at a time, that this is advantageous, and that an inference to its being able to do so is a