On 18 April 2010 12:58, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > ------------------------------------------<snip>---------------------- > Not convinced this a true statment. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s > with MVS, it was wired it into homegrown TSO commands and worked well. Then > with some new release it became authorized. I had Bill Godfrey (TSSO fame > and TSO GURU) under Contract working for the Air Force in the Pentagon and > he heard our moans. Bill headed off into the load module and determined IBM > was doing a GETMAIN for some very small number of bytes (4 I think) from a > Subpool which needed you to be authorized. No one ever determined why they > decided to do it. So the fix for our TSO commands was to go back into a SVS > system and get its IEBCOPY which did not need authorization and called it > XEBCOPY for use with the TSO commands. We ran that for years and may even > still be around. > ---------------------------------------<unsnip>-------------------------------- > Wasn't there something about a new I/O appendage about that time? Something > that might have required authorization?
IEBCOPY from the earliest MVS version had a PCI appendage and used EXCPVR, as far as I remember. You can see these routines IGG019C8 and IGG019FT in the MVS 3.8 source. The IEBCOPY main module IEBDSCPY does a GETMAIN for 48 bytes of subpool 253, but that code appears to have been added later. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
