Products that can be invoked under LIBDEF for ISPLLIB must be coded to 
recognize and support it - otherwise any bog-standard LOADs could be issued 
without awareness of the tasklib DCB requirements  and you end up with an S806. 
If the product sticks to just "ISPEXEC SELECT" to invoke any other programs, 
then you are probably OK - however if there is a "LOAD" lurking in the code, 
then it must be handled correctly.

ISPF has made this easier in recent years with the introduction of the QLIBDEF 
service so that a product can query the ISPLLIB and dynamically allocate its 
own tasklib to pass on the LOAD DCB keyword. 

I would suggest that if you have an IBM product whose ISPF interface does not 
support LIBDEF for ISPLLIB, then consider raising this as a PMR/ETR.   

Rob Scott
Lead Developer
Rocket Software
275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA
Tel: +1.617.614.2305
Email: rsc...@rs.com
Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of 
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: 22 July 2011 13:28
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: dynamic STEPLIB

In <5015311985942233.wa.juergen.kellerdeutscheboerse....@bama.ua.edu>,
on 07/22/2011
   at 02:40 AM, Juergen Keller <juergen.kel...@deutsche-boerse.com>
said:

>And I do not understand why IBM does not offer an "official" way of 
>doing this which is maintained with the approprate z/OS release.

IBM does, and it's pretty long in the tooth. It's restricted to the READY 
prompt, which is a RPITA, but if you're using ISPF then LIBDEF should do the 
trick.
 
-- 
     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)

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