On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:14:16 -0500, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: >>Excellent! Making them PDSEs will decomplicate your life. > >No, it won't. PDSEs are fine and easier to work with then PDSs > >My main issues were > >There is no easy way to load members to a library that is defined VB, 255 >(IEBUPDTE did not work on that best). I guess I could have used individual >steps of IEBGENER. Instead I wrote an ADDMEM utility in Rexx. All other PDS >or PDSE manipulation was done using IEBUPDTE or ISPF. > >Shortening the file names to 8 bytes, upper case consistently in all source >code was the core of my port process, but it was done with some Perl scripts. > >The other core issue was to resolve bind time dependencies. Here I had had >the worst headache! I will leave the explanation of my solution out for now >until I am ready to publish my process. > You fail to appreciate how much making them UNIX directories could have decomplicated your life. I suspect one of the Dovetailed utilities could let you do a local spawn of a UNIX executable using the unneutered names and propagating DDNAMES. (Or perhaps BPXWUNIX if you eschew third-party utilities.)
BTW, when you added PDS capability, etc. to PCRE, I hope you didn't do that at the expense of disabling UNIX directory capability. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
