I do use a UNIX subdirectory on my SYSEXEC concatenation. But, as you said, it cannot be first. So I have an empty PDS with FB/80 as the first DSN in the concatenation. A clumsy work around, but at least it works for me.
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 17:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:07:18 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: > > >On 4/17/2012 12:53 PM, McKown, John wrote: > >> As the OP, I thought I'm mention that I finally got the z/OS NFS server to > >allow me to mount a high-level onto a z/OS UNIX subdirectory on the same > >system. > > > >Clever and resourceful. But certainly just a workaround for > >the situation: you would like the compilers to be able to > >use MVS data sets directly for SYSLIB (and other DD names). > > > More than "just a workaround". It has the considerable collateral > benefit of making legacy data sets available for processing by > arbitrary USS commands. > > The next thing I'd like to see (but I don't do COBOL) is removal > of contrived restrictions on the use of USS files and directories > by applications using QSAM/BSAM/BPAM. For example I'd like to > be able to use a USS directory as SYSEXEC. The only reason I > can't is that Rexx makes a test (only on the first catenand) on > DSORG that excludes USS directories. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
