On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:11:06 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: >Peter Relson wrote: >> What would you suggest as a means of making sure that customers use the >> proper release of the binder? > >I suggest SMP/E packaging be enhanced. For example, FMIDs requiring >specific minimum releases of various utilities could indicate those >requirements via JCLIN and SMP/E could query (by trial execution with >"canned" parameters?) the actual release of the available utility. > Hmmm. Of course the customer is free to specify via OPTIONS entries in UCLIN alternative utilities.
It's hard to imagine any customer's productively choosing a nonstandard alternative to Binder or IEBCOPY. (I once pondered front-ending Linkage Editor, only for in-house use.) I suppose it would be the responsibility of the supplier of any alternative utility to assure that it produces expected results from the putative "canned" parameters. But the requirement ought to be documented. And I do have a script that verifies a required level of SMP/E itself by executing GIMSMP with invalid SMPCNTL and scraping the level from the SMPOUT header. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
