Re: [netrexx-pipelines] LOCATE Stage name abbreviation: No

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Jeff!

Am 25.06.2022 um 22:21 schrieb Jeff Hennick:
> Right now I can not find your message dealing with the *LOCATE* stage and, in
> NetRexx Pipelines, not being able to abbreviate its name down to "L", to be able
> to respond to it.

No problem, I remember well my complain.

> I have just spent several hours going through the IBM *CMS Pipelines User's
> Guide and Reference /Version 7 Release 1/* (which as far as I can see is the
> most recent) checking each documented stage and its aliases to be sure our
> system matched and was documented correctly.  (The manual hides aliases in
> different places for different stages and does not index them.  And on some
> stages puts the name in all lowercase instead of all upper.)  I found a couple
> of stages where we do not yet have the shortened name aliases, and will be
> committing them and updated tests & documentation soon.

You spent several hours? Why didn't you use Pipelines? ;)
It took me two minutes to access "my mainframe" and take the
attached screen shot.

> As for using Hercules to look in the corners where the CMS documentation is not
> clear, I want to work against the current VM/CMS Pipelines.  I don't think the
> Hercules edition would help much if at all.  I'd like to be proven wrong on that.

You'd like it, you said. Is the screen shot sufficient enough?

> But, *LOCATE* is not one of them.  This is what the manual has:
> [...]

You probably know, every program with more than 15 lines has at
least one error, without fail. Same holds true for documentation.
Alas, up to now I did not see an errata for 'the Book'.

> (I have not tried this myself.)  But adding it to the release now would likely
> break some existing pipes.

Woot? Likely a lame excuse, methinks. Please present an example
that explains when, how, why, and more about that break you suspect.

Best,
M.