This response feels like we're playing a game of Jeopardy (Alex, I'll take datasets for $100). Did you actually contact IBM to ask them "what is a dataset"?
Did it have something to do with specifying a Unix file name in a DSN parameter? If so, then the answer is that not all datasets have a dataset name. UNIX datasets have a file name (no DSN). SYSOUT datasets have SYSOUT attributes (no DSN). Subsystem datasets have subsystem information (no DSN). DSF and DFDSS use entire volumes as datasets which doesn't have a DSN for the DD. Can you give us some context? Why is this important or even relavent? Jon Perryman. >________________________________ > From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> > > >On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 16:51:03 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >> >>>What's a data set? >> >>Anything that can be allocated to a ddname. >> >As I said, I have attempted to invoke that definition (pretty directly >from "Using Data Sets") when IBM Tech Support has told me, "But the >Ref says that DDNAME must refer to a data set." (Tautology?) I've >never won the argument. I don't recall that I've ever got even a DOC >APAR for a clarification. > >>>What's not a data set? >> >>Anything else, e.g., an SM stream. >> >Or, in the view of IBM Tech Support for some products, a UNIX file. > >-- gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
