In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
01/02/2008
at 04:56 PM, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The 'equivalent' examples quoted from the manual differ greatly in coding
>JCL statements in a cataloged procedure: DSNAME can be represented as a
>symbolic variable but DDNAME cannot.
The DDNAME keyword solved that quite nicely.
>I'm guessing that the 'unnatural' syntax option for a null path name
>simply gives a Unix user the same two choices as in MVS JCL.
All ways of specifying a classic DUMMY file have the same semantics. Paul
is claming that that is not the case for dummy paths. If so it is a
grievous fault. The question is not whether the syntax is natural, but
whether the system should treat two paths differently when in Unix they
are expected to have the same behavior.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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