"Steve Comstock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Mark Thomen wrote: > > "Paul Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > > >>Hello: According to the documentation, (z/OS DFSMS Access Method Services > >>for Catalogs Publication No. SC26-7394-03) "Access method services > >>identifies the verb name ALLOCATE and attaches the terminal monitor > > > > program > > > >>(TMP) that runs Time Sharing Option (TSO) commands in the background." > >> > >>Is there any case where this is not done? In other words, can the > >>ALLOCATE command sucessfully allocate a data set without invoking the > >>use of the TMP/TSO? > > > > > > No - what the book says, is what it does.... > > > > Thanks, > > Mark Thomen > > Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development > > > > 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.
The ALLOCATE command is passed to TMP because it is the ALLOCATE command. We do not attempt to keep up with all the keywords and options in IDCAMS for it, as that would cause havoc anytime it changed. Thanks, Mark Thomen Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
