On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:53:43 +0000, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > None of us was smart enough to anticipate all of these requirements; and in > the upshot > many utilities do substantive work of their own, No utility I am familiar > with limits itself to invoking some data-management facility to do all of > its substantive work for it. > I see an intriguing contrast in your views of functional modularity. Previously in these pages you have argued for the merits of a centralized facility for date/time conversions, stating the hazard of multiple disparate implementations, a view with which I strongly agree.
But here you oppose a similarly centralized facility for data set name transformation and validation. I have far less problem with any of case-sensitive, case-preserving, case-insensitive, or single-case file systems than with the present schizophrenic implementation of three of the four. Simply, if using the string "'sys1.samplib'" in a TSO ALLOCATE command, denotes the well known data set, the same string in JCL DD DSN=..., or as a text unit passed to SVC 99 should have similar effect. The easiest way to ensure this uniformity is to centralize the transformation and validation. -- 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
