I would guess that your steplib consists of multiple data sets and that they are not all authorized which means that your steplib is not authorized (or that the one data set that is there is not, despite your thought, APF-authorized.) If you have a dump, you can look at the DCB's DEB to see if bit DEBAPFIN is on. That is the final arbiter of whether or not your steplib is authorized. . Then, assuming that "A" was linkedited with AC=1, "A" gets control APF-authorized, and cannot load from an unauthorized steplib and thus finds "B" in the (authorized) LNKLST rather than "B'" in the unauthorized steplib.
I am also presuming that "B" and "B'" are not aliases of A. By the way, the default for LSEARCH is LSEARCH=NO. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
