I am fairly risk adverse. Given the environment here with "pain points" associated with incidents such as abends, corrupted data, and so on, it only makes sense. But I prefer PDSE to PDS. I used to keep all my personal data in PDSEs. I now keep the majority of my data in z/OS UNIX files, where such is use reasonable to me. That is, basically, where I used to use PDSE libraries. The only thing I really don't keep in UNIX files are compiled non-UNIX programs. Mainly because I can't put a UNIX subdirectory in my STEPLIB.
There are some good, to me, reason for my use of UNIX files instead of legacy libraries. 1) People here are reactionary and don't use "new" facilities often. So they don't look for my stuff in UNIX. So I don't need to explain why I have stuff and why I don't let them look at it. (all my data sets are UACC(NONE) with only select groups in the access list). 2) I like many of the UNIX utilities. Even as poorly as they are implemented by IBM vs. the GNU versions. I especially like grep, awk, and sed for text manipulation. For more difficult manipulation, I like Perl. And I've had the arguments with another that TSO/ISPF/REXX can, as they put it, "do the same things and do it more easily". I disagree, but "to each his own". I will admit that I really don't like "vi" very much. The PDF editor is much better. But I can use it to edit UNIX files, so there's no reason to avoid them. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:34 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: GOFF > > Like everyone else I had some early troubles with PDSEs, but I > expected them, and I now find PDSEs less problematic (for the usual > reasons) than PDSs. > > Long experience and its attendant decrepitude confer some [very] few > advantages, one of which is the expectation that problems can and will > be resolved. > > The classical deficiencies of PDSs are not much talked about by those > who avoid PDSEs. They are accustomed to the deficiencies of the old > and they want the new to behave much like the old, perhaps with a > fillip or two of---but not too much---innovation. > > I have almost no sympathy with these notions and less with the > rhetorical device of waving the bloody shirt; but I do recognize that > my differences with reactionary, risk-averse people are visceral, not > moral. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, Ma 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
