Steve Comstock wrote:
OK, how about SVC 99 interfaces, the REXX BPXWDYN service, and the related Assembler callable services? Do all of them use TMP under the covers? I would find that hard to beleive, but not impossible.
Steve, I don't understand your comment. IDCAMS invokes TMP for ALLOCATE so it didn't have to re-invent all of the parsing and keyword processing. ALLOCATE was a late addition to IDCAMS (maybe 15 years ago??). I imagine this was a quick way for IBM to provide programatic allocation of non-VSAM datasets (non-JCL) with minimal effort. So why did you think this implied anything about other allocation services? In fact, ALLOCATE invokes SVC 99.
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