In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/18/2006
   at 08:45 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>IEH utilities built its own DEB and other control blocks so that it  
>could access the DASD device (it didn't go through allocation), back
>in those days there was no dynamic allocation (at least in MFT &  
>PCP) not sure about MVT as I never was exposed to it.

Maybe in OS/360 release 1; certainly not in any release I ever saw. By
release 14 it was doing an OPENJ just like anybody else.
 
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