John, I'm with you on this one. I would prefer to have to make a minor PARM change to implement the change than to have it default to a different behavior. That way I can control when the behavior will change, and it gives me the opportunity to make the change on a test system to verify that there are no unintended consequences before unleashing it on the masses.
As soon as I saw your earlier note telling what the change actually was, I knew you would catch some flak about it. Times like this, I don't envy being in your position. Something about rocks and hard places comes to mind. :-) Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: It's Official: z/OS Now 110% Modern Matthew Stitt wrote: <snip> > > I actually like Lizette's solution far better than development. Her > solution is more functional and less specific. I know of many that use the > allocation routines for dataset work without using IEFBR14 (I for one). All > you need is to code JCL for a file that is not referenced in the program. > > Actually the MIGDEL(Norecall) should be the default, since that is what is > wanted anyway. As has been discussed in this group several times in the > past, the Recall becomes a real pain when all we wanted was for the dataset > to go away. <snip> If you like her solution better, please submit a requirement. All the ones I found talked specifically about IEFBR14, though, so why we did what we did is no mystery. We can't win on the default. We can only pick which group of customers to annoy: - If we default a behavioral change we introduce a migration action. Customers overwhelmingly tell us they hate migration actions. "Look at this behavioral change, see if you care, and change something if you don't want it to happen" is a migration action. - If we don't default the behavioral change, people who want it tell us that "everyone" would want it to be the default. We have historically been poor predictors of which group will be larger, so we are "defaulting" more and more to avoiding behavioral changes that "just happen." -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
