On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:59:20 -0800, Jon Perryman wrote: > >Gilmartin is the one who is stating imagined "ill's" about z/OS which started >this. TSO alloc & exec's have existed for decades that could easily merge >datasets. Use of UNIX rename over the use of GDG's which has also existed for >decades.� > "Started" what? I don't recall saying anything about "merging" data sets. What I asserted was that copying a file in UNIX requires a single "cp" command with two operands; copying a data set in z/OS (with IEBGENER) requires five commands: EXEC plus four DDs, some of which have several operands.
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