While we're discussing STEPLIB concatenations and APF authorization, is there any fairly straightforward way for a running program to determine "which STEPLIB concatenation[s] made me not APF-authorized?" (I suspect I know the answer and it is No ...)
I totally get the reason APF-authorization and STEPLIB concatenation is the way it is, and I am not arguing with that at all. Here's the problem. As a software vendor, on new installs we often get customers saying "your product puts out a message saying it is not authorized but we're sure we authorized the library" and it is often a painful process taking them through checking each concatenation. The dialog often turns argumentative with the customer saying "WE TOLD YOU ALL THE LIBRARIES ARE AUTHORIZED" and our support techs trying to explain that TESTAUTH says differently. Of course it always turns out to be a typo or a bad volser or SMS versus not or something like that. So far TESTAUTH has not been wrong once! <g> So ... if our messages could readily say "not authorized -- check STEPLIB(+2)" or "not authorized -- check SYS1.FOO.LOAD" it would be a big help. Even simpler question: is it possible for a program to check (only) its own AC(1) bit?" Again, I am looking for straightforward solutions. I'm not looking to implement some huge library search process. I'm looking for something like a bit in the DEB or something like that. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
