I can see the point about creating an unnecessary subsystem, but what's complicated about looking up a subsystem?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter Relson [rel...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 8:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table <snip> How is using a field for what it is intended for abuse? </snip> "Abuse" in this case is creating a subsystem when there is no need to do so. In the past, subsystems were sometimes created solely to have access to the SSCTUSER field. <snip> And how is N/T easier? </snip> For the same reason as above -- there is no need to create a subsystem. It is likely easier, also, for the application to retrieve the data. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
