Talk:Concatenation

message: "Concate" & "nate" = "Concatenate" 
Is this a kind of joke? The etymology is surely from Latin catena, a chain.
S. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.168.172.132 (talk) 06:04, 26 November 2002 (UTC)
thread_title: Strange etymology

message: British English is my native language, and I have no idea how you pronounce it so I avoid using it in conversation. I'm sure I'm not alone. Can someone do the pronunciation stuff?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.147.211 (talk) 10:40, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: HI :)  —Preceding unsigned commentSDF added by 212.219.76.100 (talk) 10:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi 

message: Mainframe concatenation refers to defining and usage of a sequence of libraries for the purposes of accessing objects in those libraries. 
=== CONCAT ===
CONCAT is a native command of the z/OS operating system which is used to define ISPF/TSO library allocations. 
CONCAT can add libraries to any standard ISPF DD including SYSPROC SYSEXEC ISPPLIB ISPSLIB and ISPMLIB
This is not true, globally. 
If you try the command on a base system, I used IBM DEMO (DEMOpkg in Montpellier, France & DEMOmvs in Austin, Texas, USA) to issue 
TSO HELP CONCAT  
and you get...
IKJ56802I HELP NOT AVAILABLE+                               
IKJ56802I COMMAND CONCAT NOT FOUND, FOR MORE HELP ENTER HELP
***  
Same with CONCATD.
Commands (see SYS1.HELP) issued as standard (at least at my friendly IBM locations) are...
CONNECT 
CONSOLE 
CONSPROF
CONVXLAT
At a non-IBM site I tried the 
TSO HELP CONCAT 
and it displayed
FUNCTION                                                    
  THE CONCAT COMMAND IS USED TO CONCATENATE UP TO 9 ALREADY 
  ALLOCATED DATA SETS.                                      
                                                            
SYNTAX                                                      
  CONCAT (FILE1,FILE2,...FILEN)                             
                                                            
OPERANDS                                                    
  FILE1 - THE NAME OF THE FIRST FILE OF THE CONCATENATION.  
          THIS WILL ALSO BE THE NAME OF THE RESULTANT CON   
          CATENATED FILE.                                   
  FILE2,...FILEN - THE NAMES OF THE FILES TO BE CONCATENATED
                   TO FILE1 IN THE ORDER OF CONCATENATION.  
                   AT LEAST ONE NAME MUST BE SPECIFIED, BUT 
                   NOT MORE THAN 8.                         
Nothing for CONCATD
83.226.154.74 (talk) 08:33, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Mainframe 

message: CONCAT is a native command of the z/OS operating system which is used to define ISPF/TSO library allocations. 
CONCAT can add libraries to any standard ISPF DD including SYSPROC SYSEXEC ISPPLIB ISPSLIB and ISPMLIB
This is not true, globally. 
If you try the command on a base system, I used IBM DEMO (DEMOpkg in Montpellier, France & DEMOmvs in Austin, Texas, USA) to issue 
TSO HELP CONCAT  
and you get...
IKJ56802I HELP NOT AVAILABLE+                               
IKJ56802I COMMAND CONCAT NOT FOUND, FOR MORE HELP ENTER HELP
***  
Same with CONCATD.
Commands (see SYS1.HELP) issued as standard (at least at my friendly IBM locations) are...
CONNECT 
CONSOLE 
CONSPROF
CONVXLAT
At a non-IBM site I tried the 
TSO HELP CONCAT 
and it displayed
FUNCTION                                                    
  THE CONCAT COMMAND IS USED TO CONCATENATE UP TO 9 ALREADY 
  ALLOCATED DATA SETS.                                      
                                                            
SYNTAX                                                      
  CONCAT (FILE1,FILE2,...FILEN)                             
                                                            
OPERANDS                                                    
  FILE1 - THE NAME OF THE FIRST FILE OF THE CONCATENATION.  
          THIS WILL ALSO BE THE NAME OF THE RESULTANT CON   
          CATENATED FILE.                                   
  FILE2,...FILEN - THE NAMES OF THE FILES TO BE CONCATENATED
                   TO FILE1 IN THE ORDER OF CONCATENATION.  
                   AT LEAST ONE NAME MUST BE SPECIFIED, BUT 
                   NOT MORE THAN 8.                         
Nothing for CONCATD
83.226.154.74 (talk) 08:33, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  CONCAT 

message: CONCATD is a utility written and maintained by IBM which extends the functionality provided by CONCAT. 
The CONCATD command performs the following functions:            
  - Dynamically concatenates a data set or list of data sets before an existing or after an existing allocation.          
  - Deconcatenates from an existing ddname allocation.           
  - Creates an new allocation, if none exists.                   
  - Frees the whole file, if the caller deconcatenates all data sets of an existing allocation.                         
  - Lists the file allocation, if the file keyword and the list operand were used.                                      
  - Shows the CONCATD version, if invoked without operands       
  - Shows the CONCATD syntax, if invoked with an ? as operand    
  - Allocates the file with the permanently allocated attribute, if the PERM keyword was entered, or if the file already exists with an permanently allocated attribute. 
  - Displays all the members of PO concatenated data sets        
  - Displays all the ENQueuers when an OLD allocation fails      
Common usage of CONCATD is to concatenate personal libraries before libraries defined by the default system logon PROC. This allows a user to run CLIST and REXX programs without needing to specify the library where the code is.
NOTE:
This is not true, globally. 
If you try the command on a base system, I used IBM DEMO (DEMOpkg in Montpellier, France & DEMOmvs in Austin, Texas, USA) to issue 
TSO HELP CONCATD  
and you get...
IKJ56802I HELP NOT AVAILABLE+                               
IKJ56802I COMMAND CONCATD NOT FOUND, FOR MORE HELP ENTER HELP
***  
Same with CONCAT.
Commands (see SYS1.HELP) issued as standard (at least at my friendly IBM locations) are...
CONNECT 
CONSOLE 
CONSPROF
CONVXLAT
Note however that at a non-IBM site I tried 
TSO HELP CONCAT 
and it displayed
FUNCTION                                                    
  THE CONCAT COMMAND IS USED TO CONCATENATE UP TO 9 ALREADY 
  ALLOCATED DATA SETS.                                      
                                                            
SYNTAX                                                      
  CONCAT (FILE1,FILE2,...FILEN)                             
                                                            
OPERANDS                                                    
  FILE1 - THE NAME OF THE FIRST FILE OF THE CONCATENATION.  
          THIS WILL ALSO BE THE NAME OF THE RESULTANT CON   
          CATENATED FILE.                                   
  FILE2,...FILEN - THE NAMES OF THE FILES TO BE CONCATENATED
                   TO FILE1 IN THE ORDER OF CONCATENATION.  
                   AT LEAST ONE NAME MUST BE SPECIFIED, BUT 
                   NOT MORE THAN 8.                         
Nothing for CONCATD
See CALL BPXWDYN which does have a CONCAT function, although I have not yet tried this.
83.226.154.74 (talk) 08:36, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  CONCATD 

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message: The  section has no encyclopedic information; it currently contains only information tantamount to the saying “If the rooster crows at the break of day, the weather may change or stay the same way.”. Can we delete it? ◅ Sebastian 13:50, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  can we cut the Implementation section?