IFASMFR maps records owned by z/OS (and not necessarily even all of those for elements that are not exclusive elements). Other products (IBM and ISV) map their own records.
>There is no reason why IFASMFR can not have support for these >records by internally calling the needed DSNQWS* macro. "Physically" true (obviously we physically could do so), but in practice not true. There are reasons. One is that in most cases z/OS does not make things available to products outside of z/OS unless it also makes them available to competitors of those products, and the easiest approach, then, is not to do it for any. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
