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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:04:00 PST
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- From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: IEFBR14
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- On Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:41:07 EST,
- Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU> said:
- > I am not sure why you consider this behavior of MVS to be broken.
- > It is exactly what would happen if you said (OLD,CATLG) and did not
- > open the data set, for example by running IEFBR14.
-
- (If you open the dataset, you'll abend S213, however this is
- irrelevant to what follows.)
-
- I consider it broken because MOD will be treated as NEW if the dataset
- doesn't exist, OLD-Extend if it does exist, unless you point to a
- specific volume, in which case it's only treated as OLD-Extend. (And
- on Tuesday with a full moon you need a full fizbin. {*})
- Specifically, why will MOD create the dataset on a generic/esoteric
- unit, but not on a specific volume??? The only other organization
- that can write arcane rules like that is the IRS, and we know
- *they're* unreasonable. This behaviour is a *perfect* example of why
- users consider MVS too complicated.
-
- /Leonard
-
- {*} For those non-Trekkers, in "A Piece of the Action", Kirk is
- making up rules of the game as he goes along, just to confound the bad
- guys. Each time they think they understand his rules, he invents
- another exception.
-