On 2015-12-21, at 09:56, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > Enterprise COBOL does not support VSE (z/VSE). VSE also has no Unix > subsystem, so I don't imagine BPXWDYN is supported either. VSE COBOL > does not (directly) support dynamic allocation of datasets at all, to my > knowledge. > BPXWDYN hardly depends on UNIX. I suspect its documentation landed in the Rexx-UNIX book where it hardly belongs. I've used it or at least tested it outside both Rexx and UNIX.
A few whiles ago, Mark Z. (or was it Ed J.?) had a problem calling BPXWDYN before the OMVS component (address space? STC?) was up. I believe this was regarded as a bug, and may have been fixed. Something to do with preparing to report errors on /dev/fd/2. I strongly suspect BPXWDYN strongly depends on SVC 99. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
