On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:03:22 -0500, John McKown wrote: >> > >> Is STEPLIB kept or reallocated? Suppose, e.g. another job is waiting on an >> ENQ for a DSN in that STEPLIB. Will that other job intrude? Suppose the >> STEPLIB before exec() includes an uncatalogued data set. Will the exec()ed >> program get the same data set? > >I don't know. If you have STEPLIB='CURRENT', then the initiator (which is >what I think is actually doing the function of step-end + start new, >inserted, step-start) might be smart enough to leave the existing >allocation alone. > In some of the ISPF UNIX panels there's no way to specify STEPLIB=NONE. As a result, performance is dreadful as each command in ~/.profile searches STEPLIB.
But perhaps my .profile is too big. I try to make it exit early in the ISPF case. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
