Back when I was a DOS/360 sysprog, one of the very first product ideas I ever had was a memory-resident program-to-program named data passer -- kind of like name/token services or environment variables. A caller would have been able to set or retrieve values by name. I never followed through. I don't remember the details. I guess the values would have been accessible by a called API or a utility program.
What's my point? I guess I don't have one. What's wrong with name/token services? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Passing data from step-to-step in single job using memory?? Well, I haven't really found a way to do what I would like. I want to pass a _small_ amount of data from one step to a subsequent step in a single job. I want the data "cleaned up" at end of job automatically. Historically, this means a temporary PS data set, perhaps in VIO (which is memory). I'm just looking to see if there is another way. Why? I guess just "for fun(??)." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
