Three guesses ... Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 1:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL v5 On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:06:57 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote: > >http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=a >n&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS215-267 > >z/OS V2.2 is designed to support a new IEFOPZxx parmlib member in which you >can specify pairs of partitioned (PDS and PDSE) data sets. In each pair, you >can specify one that is to be searched ahead of its counterpart data set when >programs are fetched. This new function is intended to allow you to insert >program libraries ahead of others in the link list, in STEPLIB and JOBLIB >concatenations, and for LLA-managed libraries without making JCL changes. ... > Damn! That sounds like a desperate measure designed to combat customer intransigence: Customer: We can't tolerate the downtime to convert, nor the effort of changing all our JCL! IBM: Here, let us help you ... I've never heard of so elaborate a conversion aid, nor of one so deeply embedded in the OS. But, then, there are a lot of things I don't know. Is there an expiration date for the facility, or will it clutter the OS perpetually? If the latter, it will surely come to be used off-label, institutionalized, and necessarily perpetuated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
