In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 01/04/2010
at 05:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>Does that mean before there were PROCs?
No.
>PROCs are little use without symbols.
They were quite useful.
>Or was everything done with overrides?
Yes. As I recall, symbolic parameters came in with OS/360 Release 14.
>For most of what I cited, JCL/initiator exploits it.
The Initiator runs in Supervisor; Rexx does not.
>That suggests that something is in initiator that would more
>properly be in allocation.
There's more to Allocation then SVC 99. What's missing is an unprivileged
interface to the Allocation features that are either global or that are
local but have no TU assigned.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
