In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said:

> Date:         Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:58:51 -0300
> 
> >in those days there was no dynamic allocation (at least in MFT &
> >PCP) not sure about MVT as I never was exposed to it.
> 
> Maybe in OS/360 release 1; certainly not in any release I ever saw. By
> release 14 it was doing an OPENJ just like anybody else.
> 
<sigh of deep relief>  But that leaves open the question of why
it doesn't exploit the catalog when no VOL is supplied.  Does
it use DYNALLOC?

-- gil
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