I think Frank was suggesting 'DATACLS' as an alternative to my 'DTACLASS'.

My notion was that 'DATACLAS' was originally ill-advised, an error
waiting to be made.  It is now too late to change it.

--jg



On 8/14/12, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> Where do you find DATACLS?  The only coding I have seen is DATACLAS which is
> how the ACS code for data class is coded.  I have not seen that as an alias
> as of yet.
>
> Lizette
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Aug 14, 2012 8:20 AM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: Valid DATACLAS names - where documented?
>>
>>DATACLS
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>________________________________
>>> From: John Gilmore <[email protected]>
>>>To: [email protected]
>>>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 7:46 PM
>>>Subject: Re: Valid DATACLAS names - where documented?
>>>
>>>The language Paul Gilmartin cites is certainly not felicitous.  As I
>>>have already noted, the OPs problem was, however, a different one.  He
>>>used dataclass=, a nine-character keyword parameter, in a context in
>>>which at most eight-character ones are supported.
>>>
>>>Now it is fair to note that the choice of the keyword value 'dataclas'
>>>was an ergonomically poor one: dtaclass=,. which I don't much like,
>>>would have been better because less error-prone.
>>>
>>>A fuss is nevertheless being made about nothing.  The trivial default
>>>syntax I set out in an earlier post should be familiar, if only
>>>implicitly, to anyone who writes JCL statements.
>>>
>>>--jg
>>>
>>>On 8/13/12, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:30:01 -0400, Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Subparameter Definition
>>>>> -----------------------
>>>>> data-class-name
>>>>>     Specifies the name of a data class to be used for allocating the
>>>>>     data set.
>>>>>
>>>>>     The name, one to eight characters, is defined by the storage
>>>>>     administrator at your installation.
>>>>>
>>>> That's not very helpful; actually somewhat circular; if you _are_
>>>> the storage administrator.  So maybe it's in the ICAG/Tuna?
>>>>
>>>> -- gil
>>>>
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