Jim Mulder wrote:
So, when IBM "removed" the function from MVS, they created a "secret
handshake" (available to privileged code only) to allow the loader
itself to continue using the interface? Cute!
The undocumented loader interface has been there at least as long as I
have been here (almost 26 years). I can't speak for what may have been
"removed" before that. And I don't think the interface requires you to be
privileged (based on a quick look at the code). HEWLOADR (alias of
IEWBLINK) is AC=0.
Wow! Looks like the CDE resulting from the "secret" SVC 41 interface
does *not* have the CDSYSLIB bit turned on, meaning any
authorized/privileged program that tries to LOAD the resulting module
will receive abend S306. Understandable.
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