Peter, Mgmt decided we would’ve use a WTO ...standard
Scott On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 5:35 PM Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, using CVTUSER sensibly for a whole organisation requires authorised > code to run at IPL time, which must allocate a USERVT in common storage and > point CVTUSER at that. > > There will be other ways, but once that work is done, it is relatively > little work to use it for each product that needs an entry. > > I was just wondering whether people still use it. > > Ruz > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, 20:31 Charles Mills, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1. I have no idea. It is certainly a relic of olden times. > > > > 2. Yes, or the vector that @Peter has described that led to this thread > > offshoot. You can get to the vector with four (?) Loads, and then > > presumably one or two more to get to the actual specific "user" data you > > need. I suspect the overhead for N/T services -- while pretty efficient > -- > > is greater. > > > > Charles > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > > Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 12:20 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: WTO > > > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 11:31:51 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > > > > >I think the problem with CVTUSER is that there is only one field but > lots > > of "users" (customer, vendor, other customer department, other vendor, > ...). > > > > > Is this a relic of single address space design? > > > > Is this something better addressed by name/token services? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
