Re: https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1511&L=ibm-main&P=R37953&1=ibm-main&9=A&I=-3&J=on&X=C539315E5DAE4A6734&Y=PaulGBoulder%40AIM.COM&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches&z=4
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:51:04 -0800, retired mainframer wrote: ><snip> > >> When better techniques become available, perhaps the inferior ones should >> me marked in future editions as deprecated. > >So every time IBM makes an update to a marketed product, they should search >all the freebies to see if they might need some pedantic update to the code or >documentation? It's not enough that IBM allows people to spend time on the >clock to develop this stuff for which they will not charge and make it >available to all, even non-customers and competitors? That would probably >kill the incentive to release any "as is/no warranty or support" tools of any >kind. > No, but it was implied earlier in this thread that the document contains contributed material. They might likewise consider suggested updates. Corequisite updates are a sore point. Many IBM utilities fail with z/OS UNIX files as input because of something akin to "unsupported device type", while they continue to support card readers and punches. Often it appears the check is gratuitous -- it can be defeated by preconcatenating an empty Classic data set. Simply, such checks should be eliminated; deferred to the access method to succeed or fail. >Didn't anyone read the reference? On page 84: " For PDSs with lots of >members, you can improve the performance of the IDCAMS step by deleting the >members in reverse order. To do this, just add: > SORT FIELDS=(1,8,CH,D) >to CTL2CNTL to sort the members in descending order. > It would have been clearer in CTL2CNTL, clearly commented. Does DFSORT input allow comments? There are several things every language should support, such as: o Comments, like HLASM "*". o No-op, like HLASM ANOP o User-generated error messages, like HLASM MNOTE. There are reasons for all these. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
