LNKLST UPDATE is never safe no matter what you do. The DELAY sub-keyword of LNKLST UPDATE might help to reduce the exposure. It will in no way eliminate it, any more than you can guarantee the wall-clock elapsed-time of a specific piece of code.
Joe Owens wrote >It is not properly documented anywhere Perhaps Joe could elaborate on that. It is documented in both the z/OS 1.10 and 1.11 books, albeit not overly descriptive. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

