IEBGENER is the generate utility. It was developed for background (not interactive use). I suspect that today, it is primarily used to copy files because it is synonymous with copying a file To avoid collisions, IBM add's 3 letter product prefixes.
In the interactive environment, we use the COPY or REPRO command. REPRO came out with VSAM so it could not use the command name COPY. Jon Perryman. >________________________________ > From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> > > > >>And I find "cp" terribly confusing - to a neophyte does it stand for >>copy, or compare, or compress (as in disk reorganization). It might make >>more sense if I could assign an alias of COPY to it. >> >Whereas it's intuitively obvious that IEBGENER means "copy". Give me a >break! You can assign whatever alias you choose (even IEBGENER) to >"cp" with a single command; either as a shell alias or as a symbolic link. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
