On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:13:48 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: >> > >> Can you use UNIX files (zFS) for your purposes and avoid the archaism? > >Not practically. But that would be a circumvention, not a solution as I see >it. > When something doesn't work as desired, and it's impractical to fix it (R.S. appears to understand the design constraints), and you discard it and get a new one with more satisfactory design, I don't see why you see that as a "circumvention" as opposed to a "solution".
Suppose z/OS were to provide an entirely new DSORG that met your requirement of "SPACE=ANY". Would you see that also as a circumvention? Tne customers' perennial but impossible demand: "Make it work, but don't change anything!" E.g.: "allow volumes larger than 54 GB, but don't change the 3390 geometry!" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
