I do have some programs which require GOFF to assemble and cannot reside in a PDS. But they are "weird" in that they are LE enabled DLLs written in HLASM. The program objects actually reside in a z/OS UNIX file, not a PDSE data set.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 10:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: GOFF > > On 8/21/2012 7:49 AM, John Gilmore wrote: > > I discovered by making a sequence of experiments that Peter Relson is > > literally correct. My phrase "wots not of" was ill chosen. > > > > That conceded, the GOFF and XOBJ object modules that can be included > > in load modules bythe Binder must be denatured ones, shorn of their > > interesting properties. > > > > These restrictions are many, and I will not rehearse all of them > here. > > Interested readers can scan z/OS MVS Program Management: User's > Guide > > and Reference, SA22-7643-11 using the search argument GOFF. > > > > They are in fact so many that it is fair to say that GOFF [and XOBJ] > > object modules cannot IN GENERAL be included in load modules. None > of > > the GOFF object modules produced by the HLASM in recent weeks from my > > own code could, for example, be included in one. > > There are indeed many restrictions, but few of them matter. > > All of our HLASM products on z/OS are currently built using GOFF. None > of them > yet require or are delivered via PDSE. > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [email protected] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
