Nothing I said was meant as criticism of the OP's question. And I said nothing like your imaginary quote about anything.
What I did mean to imply is that DD DDNAME= is nothing like pipes, nor any sense of "routing" I know of. As for its usefulness, I have myself found it useful in some (rare) cases. If you find it "often" useful, that's great. In any case, I don't know (or much care) what ITschak knows or doesn't know. I answered the question as posted. sas On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:14 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Au contraire. It is often useful. I see it used in cataloged procs all the > time. And I would be confident that Itschak knows what it does. > > It is always easy to criticize anyone's question: "that's stupid! What > would you want to do that for?" but there is often a good reason were you > to understand the OP's entire situation and constraints. > > Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
