Roland, Converting to your own STC is going to be one of those things that you *will* thank yourself for at some point in the future.
There used to be a very good satirical TV program in the UK called "Yes, Prime Minister" following the story of a newly elected PM. Whenever the civil service wanted to persuade the PM to alter his decision from something foolish, Sir Humphrey used the phrase "a very courageous decision, Prime Minister"....cue a look of absolute panic on the PM's face. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Schiradin Sent: 07 December 2007 06:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Common Dataspace Rob, well you're right unfortunally a new STC 1. Have to be documented .... 2. Added to automation 3. Require a migration path for existing user 4. The SRB routine was already coded and works fine 5. other issues So using *MASTER* was much easier ok someone can say lazy. Roland >Roland, > >I have heard of other products that do this sort of thing - however it >makes me feel uneasy and personally I would try to avoid it. Your program that sneaked in that CADS is never going to be above suspicion for any system problems when an IPCS dump reveals it looking like some huge zit on *MASTER*'s nose. > >A "CADS-owning" started task is probably less than 300 lines of >assembler and probably less complex (and *much* safer) that shooting an SRB in *MASTER*. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
