On Sat, 12 Jun 2021, at 20:53, Bob Bridges wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what's the advantage?
Possibly none, but I thought that if an allocate was going to fail for
some reason handling that before I started using libdefs would be
easier. Otherwise I'd have to take more care which libdefs were
then reversed.
Having said that, for simple dialogs I only allocated a single pds
then altlibbed/libdeffed that for each of the types of file within
it, eg naming rexx execs Rxxx, skeletons Sxxx, panels
Pxx etc.
I probably assumed that all the libdefs/altlibs would work, if the
alloc had worked.
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
> Jeremy Nicoll
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 18:19
>
> Twenty+ years ago I always used ALLOC to allocate the datasets
> concerned, and only if that worked then issued LIBDEF/ALTLIB via their
> ddname interfaces.
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