On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:55:33 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >One way I look at them > >Unix Files that live in MVS zFS or HFS datasets are Unix Files > >Everything else not UNIX is a dataset on z/OS. Though file is used >interchangeably for MVS dataset. > Some components of z/OS use "file" (not interchangable with data set) to mean DDNAME.
Many years ago, IBM deprecated "dataset" and made a massive sweep of publications to change it to "data set". When I encounter a a residual "dataset" I submit an RCF and Pubs sheepishly apologizes and agrees to change it. >So if FILE does not have UNIX File in the discussion, then I think of it as an >MVS dataset or MVS File. > >Therefore, if the topic has FILE or Dataset - then MVS, >If the topic has UNIX FILE - Unix in zFS or HFS > >I do not use legacy in any discussion. Tends to make readers think the >Mainframe is Dead. ;-D > Nonetheless, a major automobile manufacture proudly uses it as a model name. "Using Data Sets" states pretty clearly in an introduction that anything to which a DDNAME can be allocated is a data set. However, this bears no weight when I argue with Support: "Your utility fails when SYSIN is allocated to a UNIX file." "The doc says that must be a 'data set'." "'Using Data Sets' says that allocated UNIX files are data sets." "SR cancelled!" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
