I've also heard that there was some structural problem in IEFBR14 fixed via APAR -- no comma on END or some such trivial thing that mostly didn't matter but did in some linkedit cases. Anyone?
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote: > So the simplest of all imaginable programs was once--according to > legend--subject to a PE APAR. In the original incarnation, there was only > one instruction, BR 14, leaving R15 as on entry. But R15 is generally taken > as a return code, so wild and unpredictable numbers were passed back to the > caller. The APAR added the instruction to zero R15. > > As to whether IEFBR14 'uses' SYSUDUMP: is there any environment where some > kind of abend is utterly beyond the pale? > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 8:31 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: [TSO-REXX] Fwd: Pipelines in the z/OS base. > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 08:49:03 -0500, Hobart Spitz/br14/ wrote: > > > >(For those who may not know, IEFBR14 is a null program that does > >absolutely nothing; it allows you to use the side effects of DDs, > >typically. The entire program is SR 15,15; BR 14; hence the name. It > >does not use SYSPRINT, SYSOUT, or SYSUDUMP.) > > > True, but they might yet have useful side effects, as in: > > //STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 > //SYSPRINT DD DISP=(,CATLG),UNIT=SYSALLDA,DSN=&SYSUID..PRINT,SPACE=... > > What's in a name? > > -- gil > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
