Greetings Listers. The Share requirements committee is investigating a rather old requirement, SSSHARE011025, which asks for a way to specify, whether GDG's are cataloged at Step end or Job end. There's currently a usermod floating around that does this, I believe it's referred to as the Brylane GDG mod.
Does anyone else use this mod? Would this requirement be beneficial to you? I'll paste the entire requirement below. Thanks for any and all thoughts, comments, snide remarks. :) Mary Anne SSSHARE011025 Title: JOB OR STEP LEVEL GDG RESOLUTION OPTION. Description: IBM should provide a facility in JCL such that users could use GDG base name resolution to occur, either at STEP end or JOB end. The installation must also be to specify the default. Benefit: We (and, I suspect, many other sites) prefer that the base level for relative GDG be updated at step end rather than the current IBM default of job end. This requires a usermod ZAP to catalog processing forcing the current GDG base level to be determined from the catalog rather than from GDGNT search. This ZAP must be reworked whenever the module affected is replaced by PTF maintenance or a new release level. The choice should be made selectable by the user via the standard system tailoring mechanisms (i.e., PARMLIB or a user exit). The usermod ZAP used to cause step end resolution of GDG base level must be reworked any time maintenance hits the module affected. As OCO code becomes more prevalent, it will become increasingly difficult to properly refit the ZAP. Should the GDGNT search function be relocated in full or in part to another module, it may become impossible to fix the usermod. Since all of our JCL, job restart, and operational procedures are dependent on GDG base level being resolved at step end and not job end, this would create a critical situation, as it would require that we either totally change our JCL and operating procedures to conform to IBM default job end GDG resolution, or avoid applying maintenance that renders the usermod unusable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
