On Tue, 14 May 2019 16:19:52 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >... It has long been customary in the MVS world for each user to logon to TSO >with a concatenation of CLIST/EXEC libraries, some supplied by infrastructure, >some by the local 'department', and some by the individual user. > ??? It's no harder for infrastructure, the local 'department', or the individual user to add a UNIX directory to a library concatenation than to add a PDS(E), and more flexible since the UNIX directory imposes no RECFM restriction.
(Binder (only) limitation: a UNIX directory is accepted only solo, not concatenated. I suspect this is because Binder's support of UNIX directories antedates BPAM's -- it seems to have rolled its own.) > ... A 'salable' solution cannot seriously compromise productivity. > >I support users on two continents. Technical elegance ranks pretty far down >the list. > Microsoft relies on that view. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN