Replying to myself to fill in stuff I couldn't get (or neglected)
earlier.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:23:37 -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>In a recent note, McKown, John said:
>
>> area. I want to try to allocate my UNIX "rexx" subdirectory on my TSO
>> SYSEXEC. I don't seem to be able to. I did the following at the TSO
>>
>1) That's not supported.
>
>2) Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.
>
It helps to have OA17707.
>3) It never works unless the first catenand is a PDS or PDSE.
>
>4) I may have a SUG APAR that it be made to work a greater
> fraction of the time. And be supported whenever it works.
> (But how can I verify this if IBMLink doesn't work.)
>
That's OA11779.
>5) Member names must be <= 8 characters, upper case only.
>
More precisely, alpha/numeric/national; no lower case --
Usual JCL, etc. naming rules. You can use symbolic links
to relieve the constraint on either side.
>6) DDLIST won't report them correctly. I submitted a PMR
> on this; got WAD.
>
For decades, there was no official way to enumerate members of
a library concatenation. Now there's DESERV. But, ironically,
the newer facility, DESERV, does not support HFS concatenations
while the legacy facility, BLDL, does. And DDLIST uses neither
BLDL nor DESERV, apparently.
>As you can see, I sympathize.
>
>> The BPXWDYN did not give any messages, but a LISTALC SYSNAMES STATUS
>> shows that UNIXREXX still exists and shows no changes to SYSEXEC.
>>
>CALL bpxwdyn ... ?
>(not 'CALL' BPXWDYN ...)
>(signal on novalue spots a lot of such oversights.)
Imagine HFS directories in STEPLIB/TASKLIB/LINKLIST/LPALIST
concatenations.
-- gil
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