On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:13:30 -0600, Joel Ewing wrote: > >"SWITCH IT OFF" may not be a trivial thing to do if you are talking >about a PDS used by multiple users. The edit default for "PACKED", like >a number of ISPF edit parameters, is not maintained in one place but in >potentially-dataset-unique, potentially-user-unique edit profiles based >on the low-level qualifier of the dataset. ... > Terrible design; inexcusable! That information should exist (also) in metadata describing the file. Couldn't ISPF have spent one bit of user info in the directory entry to indicate packed/unpacked status of the member? Such a metadatum should govern opening of the member, regardless of the user's ISPF parameters, and be updated when a user SAVEs. A library with a mixture of PACKED and UNPACKED members would then be entirely practical and largely transparent (opaque to users of non-ISPF editors).
Or, "magic" numbers? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
