Motivated by the recent "Directed Load" thread in another list:
Suppose that (necessarily different) data sets in the programmer's
STEPLIB concatenation contain:
load module FRED with ALIAS WOMBAT
load module JOE with ALIAS WOMBAT
and the programmer issues:
LOAD FRED
LOAD JOE
What will happen?:
o WOMBAT in the earlier loaded module remains in effect?
o WOMBAT in the later loaded module overrides?
o STEPLIB directory search order prevails?
o An error is reported for the duplicate ALIAS?
o Other (specify)?
Is this affected if the programmer issues an explicit "LOAD WOMBAT"?
Does CSV maintain separate reference counts for FRED, JOE, and
WOMBAT, or only for FRED and JOE?
If the programmer issues:
LOAD JOE
DELETE JOE
(another job replaces JOE in the STEPLIB data set)
LOAD JOE
What happens?
Is the behavior different for DSNTYPE=LIBRARY vs. DSNTYPE=PDS?
Is this affected by LLA?
Etc.?
-- gil
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
