On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:34:25 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > Current product in question is FDRABR. He has also done Syncsort like >this. Both are needed early in the IPL and if there is a way to avoid >link/lpa listing them, I don't know it. > In many cases, I do prefer ISV in the system search concatentation, I >don't like messing with large scale JCL search and change projects. > Would aliases help here?
> If a product is not widely used, I prefer using a PROC to avoid >widespread dataset references. > Yah, but you know users; they'll circumvent; copy the PROC to edit it, etc. >> I would rather have people steplib to a dataset that contains the >> current version. Yes it may be extra work on the security side but if >> you have good conventions for names it does work well. >> >> The main reason is that I have run into vendors that use the same >> module name and it causes too much loss time trying to figure out what > Of course, STEPLIB is no solution if a single job step must ATTACH programs from both vendors. TASKLIB? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
