Not sure if relevant, but under TSO, I remember dataset name being listed as TERMFILE from various utilities and the LISTA command.
Roops --- "Mundus sine Caesaribus" On Thu, 28 Aug 2025, 18:12 Phil Smith III, <[email protected]> wrote: > That ALLOC feels like a CMS FILEDEF: > FILEDEF ddname TERMINAL > ...is perfectly valid there. More AI slop. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Charles Mills > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2025 12:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: BPXWDYN allocate terminal? Equivalent of ALLOC DA(*) > > Is there a BPXWDYN function to allocate a DD to the TSO user's current > terminal? The equivalent of TSO ALLOC DA(*)? > > I don't get any hits on <terminal> or <tso> in the BPXWDYN documentation > but I think of BPXWDYN being a superset of ALLOC. > > Why not just use ALLOC? I'd like to use a generated RTDDN, rather than a > hard-coded DD name. > > Charles > > P.S. I don't want this thread to digress into an AI rant but I did find it > amusing that Google AI (apparently?) hallucinates a "TERMINAL" keyword for > BPXWDYN and suggests > > /* Allocate the terminal as a temporary input data set */ call bpxwdyn > "alloc fi(sysin) terminal" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
