> And I was irritated when ISPF, which I had long been using suddenly began > requiring confirmation on "Delete"; no profile to disable it.
For dataset delete from 3.4? On the main panel Enter "/" to select option / Confirm Data Set Delete / Confirm Member Delete And on the delete panel Enter "/" to select option Set data set delete confirmation off Or have I misunderstood you? Or is this on V2R3 or R4? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 8:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Re: blanks at the end of Unix file names - was LMINIT cannot handle concatenation with more than 16 data sets? On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:59:02 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote: > >OK, thanks. I hadn't considered the "I'm going to because I can" angle, >namely because I'm more of the "why would you even want to do that, even if >you can, it'll cause problems." Kind of guy. But I know the adage, every time >somebody makes something foolproof, the universe comes up with a bigger fool. > I like the phrasing, "... you've underestimated the resourcefulness of your fool." I endorse Doug Gwyn's maxim: Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things. Looking for a citation, I found: https://opensource.com/business/14/12/linux-philosophy I'm bookmarking it. But I believe in highway guardrails. Less in sysadmins who "alias rm='rm -i'". And I was irritated when ISPF, which I had long been using suddenly began requiring confirmation on "Delete"; no profile to disable it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
