In <[email protected]>, on
11/29/2013
at 11:47 AM, "Ze'ev Atlas" <[email protected]> said:
>Again, you discuss the shortcoming of a specific system while I have
>a broad view.
You're specific systems; I'm still trying to figure out what it is in
them that you want to change.
>There would always be the need to disambiguate.
Then what behavior do you want to change? For normal use in Unix,
including z/OS, and for legacy z/OS data sets, the user just gives a
name and the system figures out where it is.
>That's correct and that's where I took the idea from. That concept
>needs improvements
No doubt, but so far you haven't identified any defect that a new type
of catalog would resolve.
>Another great idea from the z/OS that deserve implementation in
>that context (i.e. Central System Catalog) is the famous GDG.
>Whenever I explain the concept to my Unix friends they agree that
>such a brilliant idea should have been implemented in Unix as well.
They'd do better stealing the idea from DEC, specifically from VMS.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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