At 17:56 -0400 on 05/05/2012, Peter Relson wrote about Re: Comments
on DFSMS verbose messages?:
>Please avoid an absurdity such as "AMODE(ANY)", where
"ANY" no longer means "any", but instead "any except 64".
Tongue in cheek: sorry for not being prescient enough in (approximately)
1977 to think that someone might ever need 64-bits worth of
addressability.
It seems obvious now.
No, really: I agree.
And that is why those options are available in other forms now which I
recommend that you use -- such as '31' instead of ANY in AMODE, or in the
LOC parameters of STORAGE OBTAIN. We will never remove support for "ANY".
We can only encourage you to use better choices.
The problem is that before 64 AMODE you had 3 AMODE Choices -
24-Only, 31-Only, or BOTH 24 and 31 (ie: Any). If I code AMODE-31 I
can have problems with something that needs AMODE-24. There needs to
be am AMODE (such as ALL) to say that all 3 AMODES (24/31/64) are
supported.
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design
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