In article <a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e62616721c...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se> you wrote: > The original case by Juergen touches the main shortcoming of IBM's > STEPLIB-stance.
> There are cases when putting steplib(s) in linklist simply do not work! And > where the alternative of putting it in the logon procedures is working nearly > as bad. > I have several times seen those cases luckily (= allowed by management) been > solved by dynamic steplib functions from outside IBM. > This happens when You must use conflicting software or software versions. > One such case was when we were upgrading DB2 and during that period was the > different test/development DB2 systems on different release levels. Another > case was when we had different software (in the TSO development environments) > that relied on the same set of "SAS/C" modules for I/O and other things - but > of different releases of these modules. (At least one of those SW was > IBM's.) And other cases. Did you try putting the then-current SAS/C release in linklist? If that didn't work, you could have opened a problem report with SAS and we would have tried to fix it. For the WSA (back when it was written in SAS/C), we actually prefixed the library so that you could put two (or more) versions in linklist without disrupting running programs. > This experience coupled by some recent contacts with development labs at IBM > give me the impression that IBM lacks contact with "the reality" out here... > ;) > ? > Regards, > Thomas Berg > _________________________________________ > Thomas Berg?? Specialist?? A M?? SWEDBANK > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > > Fr?n: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] F?r > > Juergen Keller > > Skickat: den 25 januari 2012 09:51 > > Till: [email protected] > > ?mne: Re: PDSE > > > > Hello all, > > thank you for your updates and hints. Lets bring the discussion to an end > > ... > > The "problem" started when we began to install z/OS 1.12 and my colleagues > > did not want me to use dynamic steplib in the future (that was another > > post some month ago). So we decided to bring this load library to LNKLST. > > This worked fine for some weeks. No we wanted to install some maintenance > > to this library and this did not work as expected. The library is PDSE and > > from the posts I learned that we should not do what I wanted to do. So > > finally we decided to remove it from LNKLST and define it as a STEPLIB to > > the logon-procedure. That solves all the problems with lnklst and makes it > > much more easier to install maintenance. > <snip> -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive [email protected] (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
