SHARE Requirement SSSHARE011158 (A Dynamic Steplib Facility is Needed for batch and TSO) was submitted in August 1985. During our recent cleanup of the MVSE requirements (Oct 2010), the requirements committee marked it as Available, so it is no longer active.
The reason: IBM developed TSOLIB as the dynamic 'steplib' feature for TSO/E. What they did is fully compliant with all existing contents supervision behaviors and MVS integrity rules. The requirement pre-dates TSOLIB and does not stipulate that activating the dynamic 'steplib' from TSO/E READY is not an acceptable solution. A customer may want to open a new requirement for a dynamic 'steplib' feature that modifies the TASKLIB for an existing command processor's TCB within ISPF. Such a requirement will likely be rejected by IBM due to concerns about security issues. If that solution had been acceptable to IBM, they would have implemented TSOLIB that way in the first place. If anybody would like to submit a new requirement and would like help, please let me know. Best regards, Cheryl ====================== Cheryl Watson Watson & Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com ====================== On Jul 22, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Andy, Not every product that runs under TSO/ISPF can use LIBDEFs or ALTLIBs, or TASKLIBs. I think there is a Share requirement out there (for ages I think) for IBM to address this issue. So far, there is still no dynamic Steplib process. I think the TSO-REXX group has had some discussions on this topic as well. Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
