Do you think that this new feature would be able to fulfill both needs? Frank
>________________________________ > From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:52 PM >Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP "status" function > >I don't have a need. We use CA-11, which takes care of the problem of >recreating existing datasets. Why I thought of it is due to my new tendency to >use z/OS UNIX files instead of sequential datasets, when I intend to edit >them. I use PATHOPTS=(OTRUNC,OCREAT) and it just occurred to me that it might >be nice for standard sequential datasets too. I use z/OS UNIX files because I >like to use programs like sed, awk, and perl for data manipulation. > >-- >John McKown >Systems Engineer IV >IT > >Administrative Services Group > >HealthMarkets® > >9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 >(817) 255-3225 phone . >[email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com > >Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or >proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact >the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. >HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the >insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance >Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA >Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick >> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:44 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP "status" function >> >> I'd much prefer the latter, but of course have no idea how >> much work it would be. >> >> What is your 'driver' for wanting this feature? Mine is to >> eliminate the requirement of the separate IEFBR14 to do a >> MOD,DELETE prior to doing a NEW. Honestly have a hard time >> understanding how MVS has gone this long with that kludgey >> (IMHO) behavior, but... >> >> Frank >> >> >> >> >> >________________________________ >> > From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]> >> >To: [email protected] >> >Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:34 PM >> >Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP "status" function >> > >> >A good question. The simpliest thing was to have the >> INITIATOR write an EOF to the dataset and then make the >> access method use MOD. This should be a minimal change. IMO, >> the best thing to do would be to have the initiator do a >> catalog lookup and scratch the dataset if it exists, then do >> NEW processing to redrive SMS and allocation. >> > >> >-- >> >John McKown >> >Systems Engineer IV >> >IT >> > >> >Administrative Services Group >> > >> >HealthMarkets® >> > >> >9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 >> >(817) 255-3225 phone . >> >[email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com >> > >> >Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain >> confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the >> intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail >> and destroy all copies of the original message. >> HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten >> and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, >> Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West >> National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA >> Life and Health Insurance Company.SM >> > >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick >> >> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:30 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP "status" function >> >> >> >> I like it. >> >> >> >> John: What would your expectation be if the characteristics >> >> of the existing dataset were different than those specified >> >> on the DD. SPACE and the like. Would this new parm alter >> >> the characteristics as specified on the DD, or would they say >> >> the same? >> >> >> >> Frank >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >________________________________ >> >> > From: Mike Schwab <[email protected]> >> >> >To: [email protected] >> >> >Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:39 PM >> >> >Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP "status" function >> >> > >> >> >DISP=REUSE or DISP=(REUSE,CATLG) in case of additional volumes. >> >> > >> >> >On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, McKown, John >> >> ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> We all know that you can specify DISP=OLD|SHR|NEW|MOD for >> >> a dataset. I just had another wacky thought of a new one that >> >> I would like. I can't really think of a good, three >> >> character, value for it. But what it would do is what UNIX >> >> does with a PATHOPTS=(OTRUNC,OCREAT). It would, like MOD, >> >> either reuse an existing allocation, or create a new one. >> >> But, unlike MOD, it would not add to the end, but put an EOF >> >> at the beginning of the dataset and start writing over the >> >> old data. What do others think? >> >> >> >> >> >> John McKown >> >> > >> >> >-- >> >> >Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA >> >> >Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? >> >> > >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> --------- >> >> >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >> >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> >> >> > >> >------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > >> > >> > >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
