On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:04:00 +0100, Andrew Metcalfe <[email protected]> wrote:
>I guess that goes some way to explain it. I don't have the alias on z/OS >1.8. We have just migrated to z/OS 1.10 and I have a user getting errors >calling IEFSD095. IEFSD095 is (and always has been) an alias of an in-house >written block character routine (that pre-dates me). Obviously they are now >finding the new alias shipped with z/OS 1.0 rather than our in-house routine >which is further down the linklist. > Just for the sake of history, IEFSD095 was around back in MVT days and is the IBM Block Letter CSECT of data which was used for banner pages. Eastern Airlines did a whole bunch of mods to MVT (hey, in source form) and created EALSD095 which contained the data for special characters. In general this module would not get called, but one would issue a LOAD instruction to get the module available to use its data. This CSECT sometimes replaced the IBM IEFSD095 as a user mod. The program you mention being used may have its roots in some code I put onto the SHARE tape and later is now in the CBT tape to put block letter pages on output which was handy when using microfiche. You can review these in CBT file 316 if my memory serves me. Many of the programs started in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and came my way in the Pentagon via the Goddard MODS tape and then we used them as a basis for doing other things with EALSD095. And our younger brethren believe Open Source code is only a recent discovery. Jim Marshall ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
