Bruce Black wrote:
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.
Bruce Black
Well I was surprised to learn that IDCAMS
invoked TMP; just never thought about it
doing that; so I wondered if there were
other similar surprises out there. Maybe
I'm way wrong here, it just seemed that
using TMP was overkill for the task at
hand.
Kind regards,
-Steve
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