On 26 April 2017 at 12:35, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > It matters in documentation. If we were to document the FOO parameter as > "specify the name of a file" that would leave you wondering what we meant, > unless other context made it clear. We say "specify the name of an MVS > dataset" or "specify the name of a zFS file" or some combination thereof.
While we're on this... I discourage people here from documenting things like "specify the name of a zFS file". Who knows how long zFS will be around? HFS seems to be effectively dead. Maybe in a couple of years a great new QFS or something will be the UNIX file system du jour on z/OS. One of our product's docs were full of "HFS" references from ten years ago, but had nothing to do with defining a new HFS or the like; they just meant UNIX file, as opposed to MVS dataset. So that's what we say now: "UNIX file", or in the rare case it's possible to be confused with a file on another UNIX system, "z/OS UNIX file". Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
