John Eells wrote:

>There are elements of both joking and seriousness in my assertion that 
>"IEFBR14 is the most misused program of all time."

Indeed.

>Before they were around, someone probably realized that "something" to drive 
>Allocation functions would be nice. 

Coming from big blue, this little ancient proc DEALLOC is probably what you 
refer to, granted, it is sort of, but ... ;-)

//DEALLOC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                      
//DUMMY1  DD   DUMMY                                            
//* THIS PROCEDURE IS ACTIVATED BY A 'START DEALLOC' COMMAND TO 
//* EXECUTE IEFBR14 CAUSING ALLOCATION TO DEALLOCATE A          
//* DEVICE SPECIFIED ON A PREVIOUS 'VARY OFFLINE' COMMAND.      

But I agree, 'something' for driving allocation is very nice without having to 
write a program/function to do this.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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