You may use whichever DSECT you want. I just use IFGRPL but that’s just my preference.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 24, 2022, at 12:16 PM, Dave Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" <[email protected]> wrote on > 02/24/2022 11:49:34 AM: >> Why not dispense with MODCB and just modify the RPL yourself using >> IFGRPL DSECT? > > > And let me ask the question this way... I already have the IKQRPL > DSECT in my program. Are you saying that if I want to directly modify the > VSAM RPL that I should NOT do it through the IKQRPL DSECT only but should > use the IFGRPL DSECT, instead? I did look at the IFGRPL macro (which > looks like VTAM, not VSAM) and it invokes the ISTRPL macro (definitely > VTAM) under the covers. So, then I looked at the ISTRPL macro and I see > that among other things it also invokes the IKQRPL macro under the covers. > That is what prompted me to ask this question. > > > Sincerely, > > Dave Clark > -- > int.ext: 91078 > direct: (937) 531-6378 > home: (937) 751-3300 > > Winsupply Group Services > 3110 Kettering Boulevard > Dayton, Ohio 45439 USA > (937) 294-5331 > > > > > ********************************************************************************************* > This email message and any attachments is for use only by the named > addressee(s) and may contain confidential, privileged and/or proprietary > information. If you have received this message in error, please > immediately notify the sender and delete and destroy the message and all > copies. All unauthorized direct or indirect use or disclosure of this > message is strictly prohibited. No right to confidentiality or privilege > is waived or lost by any error in transmission. > ********************************************************************************************* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use.
