In <[email protected]>, on
11/07/2013
at 02:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>When I said a couple weeks ago that alternate DDNAMES should be
>handled by ATTACH, transparent to the application, someone asked,
>"What about programs that scan the TIOT for specific DDNAMEs?"
>Alas, that's a relic of the early resource-constrained
>implementation of OS.
No.
>The requirement for applications to access system control blocks
>should be minimized in favor of APIs to obtain their content. If
>this had been done, moving the TIOT above the bar (very
>hypothetical example) would not impact existing application
>programs.
But it still would have left the original problem unresolved.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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