In <02c601cbdae7$d9103650$8b30a2f0$@net>, on 03/04/2011
at 07:46 PM, Gerhard Adam <[email protected]> said:
>I personally can't see any reason for
>coding DISP=MOD or DISP=NEW when maintaining PDS members.
Avoiding an ABEND is a good reason.
>My point about poor coding practice, is that the DISP is used to
>reflect the state of an entire data set and not individual members.
Perhaps in some other OS. In z/OS it's used for both. Poor design,
perhaps, but it's not likely to change.
>So while DISP=NEW and DISP=MOD are supported, there's no
>practical reason for their use
Not if you don't care aboput the ABEND.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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