Totally agree with Tom here - JCL leads to everyone specifying their own values instead of one consistent standard for the relevant zone. Our shop mandates the use of DDDEFs for each zone.
Jerry Whitteridge Manager Mainframe Systems & Storage Albertsons - Safeway Inc. 925 738 9443 Corporate Tieline - 89443 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: SMP/E Feature? On Thu, 12 May 2016 23:16:43 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: >When I do JCL I have 1 PROC (total) for Receive, Apply and Accept. >The symbolics in JCL allow for overrides for APPLY & Accept volumes. So when you APPLY or ACCEPT you have to update the symbol(s) for the volume(s) AND specify the matching zone name? Of course, if you could just use one symbol for it all if you are using symbols in your in-stream data and your target/dlib zone names and volumes include the same string. Otherwise, you are introducing possibilities for errors. >I find with DDEF’s there can be too many incidents of OOPS I didn’t mean to do >that. Really? Can you give examples? I've never had a problem caused by the fact that I use DDDEFs. >Also with DDEFS there can be too many fingers in the pie and that leads to >oops. Why? When I create a zone, I define the DDDEFs, then leave them alone. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
