Maybe this affects us more than 'real' z/OS users because we are all in development.
>From my local experience in Rocket, I know that Name/Token is very popular in >a lot of software that we write - and the MXI command "NTOK" that displays the >system-level ones is used a lot - so much so that in the next version of MXI I >have changed the collector to be an SRB so that it can show ASID/TCB level >tokens from any address space as well. A supported callable service to do this >would be preferable to the non-GUPI control block chasing that I currently >have to do... 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 Edward Jaffe Sent: 10 September 2008 18:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Name/tokens David Cole wrote: > z/XDC used to keep track of certain control data via ENQs. The RNAMEs > all were control data that started with an identifying keyword > followed by specific data. I could then use GQSCAN to search for and > return all instances of a desired control data type simply by > specifying a GENERIC scan for the first n bytes of the RNAME. We still have software that does this. It's immensely useful to be able to list objects that have been created for your task, address space, system, or sysplex. ENQ/GQSCAN/ISGQUERY does this nicely. Name/Token? Not so much (or at all). -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
