On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 16:51:03 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>>What's a data set?
>
>Anything that can be allocated to a ddname.
> 
As I said, I have attempted to invoke that definition (pretty directly
from "Using Data Sets") when IBM Tech Support has told me, "But the
Ref says that DDNAME must refer to a data set."  (Tautology?)  I've
never won the argument.  I don't recall that I've ever got even a DOC
APAR for a clarification.

>>What's not a data set?
>
>Anything else, e.g., an SM stream.
>
Or, in the view of IBM Tech Support for some products, a UNIX file.

-- gil

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