That was back when storage and DASD were expensive and IBM was trying to keep messages short. To me it's clear that the message means not cataloged RC=2. If IBM were to code it ab initio for todays hardware, I;m sure they would make it more verbose.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Wayne Bickerdike [wayn...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2021 1:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Moron of the day -- me! NOT CATALOGED 2 always got me. Did that mean "NOT CATALOGED TOO" If so, why not, "ALSO NOT CATLOGED". On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:37 AM Mike Shorkend <mike.shork...@gmail.com> wrote: > The syntax is > > > PA {[PAGE=]}{dsname[,dsname]...} > {NONVIO=} > > So if I specified PA PAGE='SYS1.LOCAL,PAGE09' I would either expect > the dataset enclosed in the quotes to be used or, get a message > indicating that a quote was found instead of a dsname. > > As for the PMR(if I remember correctly, this was back in the 1990s), > the IBM support person pointed out the error to me. > > > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 15:28, Paul Gilmartin < > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:06:47 +0200, Mike Shorkend wrote: > > > > >My moment must have been when I wanted to add a page dataset and I > > enclosed > > >the name of the dataset in quotes. To my defence, to this day, it > throws a > > >'NOT CATALGUED' condition and not a syntax error as might be expected. > > > > > What syntax error would you expect? > > > > It's a horrible design. Quotes should simply mean that the enclosed > > DSN is to be taken verbatim; whenever VOL or UNIT is unavailable > > the catalog should be searched. > > > > >had to open a PMR to get it straightened... > > > > > What was the disposition of that PMR? > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Mike Shorkend > m...@shorkend.com > Tel: +972524208743 > > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikeShorkend/> > > <https://twitter.com/mikeShorkend> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
