In a recent note, Binyamin Dissen said: > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:52:21 +0300 > > Get the JFCB, use it (DSNAME + VOLUME) to read the DSCB. > I very much deplore it when people do that, then treat any unexpected result as a failure. It's an unwarranted flouting of the OS/360 I/O abstraction model. It prevents extension of the I/O system. For example, that sort of design now prevents using an HFS directory as the first catenand in SYSEXEC, while it works perfectly well as the second or later.
Let the access method detect errors; don't invent your own. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html