On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:47:39 -0600, John McKown wrote: > >I am confused by this. What would you put in such a catalog? The absolute >path name plus file name, such as /u/myid/some/subdir/somefile.txt ? If so, >why? If you know the name, the system knows where it is. Or do you must >mean the file name without the path, such as "somefile.txt"? If this >latter, how do you distinguish /u/myid/somefile.txt from >/u/yourid/somefile.txt? Would the catalog have both entries? If so, then if >you reference "the file" via this catalog, which file do you actually >access? > Well, if the z/OS catalog paradigm is the ideal "[f]rom the little user point of view," the existence of the second instance of "somefile.txt" should be prohibited. That way the "little user" never needs to know where to look for "somefile.txt" -- there's only one! I'll go even further: the same member name should never be allowed to exist in two different PDSes. That way, the "little user" wouldn't need to know in which library to look to find a given named member.
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