On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:31:24 -0500, Jim Mulder wrote: > > TRSMAIN was an IBM internal tool which was written before >the advent of PATH= in MVS. When TRSMAIN morphed into >AMATERSE, there was no intention of adding PATH= support. >AMATERSE does a DEVTYPE, and checks DVACLASS (in IHADVA mapping). >If it is not x'80' (tape) or x'20' (DASD), then the AMA583E >meessage is issued. I don't know what will be in DVACLASS for >a Unix File System. > And that's a shame. The DEVTYPE is gratuitous. If AMATERSE simply did QSAM OPEN and GET, it would work (to wit, it can process the PATH correctly if an empty Legacy data set is concatenated before it.) If OPEN ABENDs, there's M&C (even LOOKAT, but I hear that's going away; perhaps too useful). If the GET fails, there's SYNADAF. There's no need for specialized PATH= support. (For UNPACK; PACK from a PDS is a different matter.)
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