16 Sep
2024
16 Sep
'24
7:26 a.m.
According to GC28-6704-1, IBM System/360 Operating System: Job Control
Language Reference,
DD means "Data Definition". Bitsavers knows all.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 10:15 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Rob Pike wrote:
[ The origin of the "dd" command ]
I was told it's IBMese: Define Dataset.
Straight from IBM's JCL (Job Control Language); heck, I still remember
obscure things like "DISP=(,KEEP)" etc...
-- Dave