Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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.
Excellent point. Perhaps any utility invoked by SMP/E -- or at least
those for which an FMID's JCLIN specifies a minimum release -- should
have the ability to return certain metadata, including their release
information, via API call. Avoid the scrape.
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