I agree, but that decision was made 30 years ago. On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:28:40 +0300, Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:36:24 -0500 Brian Westerman ><brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > >:>I was asked a question today that I honestly don't know how to answer. The >programmer has a (very large) series of jobs that generate fiche tapes that >get created and have a expiration date but never are cataloged (because they >all have exactly the same DSN). So over time, they ended up with about 30,000 >tapes from the over 9,000 jobs that CA-1 keeps around until expiration date. >Obviously, these are not the easiest datasets to use later because they need >to look up the tape volser every time. > >:>The problem is that they want to know if there is a way to automatically >catalog datasets at creation time, to which I told them we could, but only 1 >of them because you can't catalog two datasets with the same name. But they >want to have "the system" which I'm guessing is me :), dynamically rename >these datasets at creation time to add a date and time, such as change >HLQ.FICHE.TAPE to which I would dynamically make it >HLQ.FICHE.TAPE.D091720.T1123, meaning today's date and the current time (if it >was 11:23am). > >:>I can't think of a way to do that in an acs routine, or any other simple >way, and I'm hoping that someone has an idea that might apply here. I think I >can alter almost anything about the dataset, except the name. Is there >something I am missing? > >That is what GDG's were built for. > >-- >Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> >http://www.dissensoftware.com > >Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > >Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, >you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. > >I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, >especially those from irresponsible companies. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
