Because no one ever asked for it? In the scenario I described, using
IEANT* would work no matter where the control block was allocated.
If you have another use-case, you can submit an RFE.


In article <7ef29fbf-086a-4108-bfd4-bda2903ac...@gmail.com> you wrote:
> Wonder why this functionality is not available above the bar

> > On Mar 13, 2019, at 11:35 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM 
> > <kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > That makes sense, if you describe it differently:
> > We have a similar thing, we have a controlblock pointed from CVTUSER. If 
> > the pointer is not filled, the controlblock does not exist, so we getmain 
> > it and put its pointer in CVTUSER.
> > 
> > So then: "if the storage is not there" actually means: "if the pointer to 
> > the storage is not filled in".
> > 
> > Kees.
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> >> Behalf Of Don Poitras
> >> Sent: 13 March, 2019 16:16
> >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> >> Subject: Re: IARST64 in addrr
> >> 
> >>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:29:56 -0400, Don Poitras wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:00:14 -0400, Joseph Reichman wrote:
> >> User-Agent: tin/2.4.2-20171224 ("Lochhead") (UNIX) (NetBSD/7.1.2
> >> (amd64))
> >> 
> >> Again, I'm just guessing. If the storage isn't there and I obtain it,
> >> then I'm the first caller and I create the control block that subsequent
> >> callers will find.

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