Mark,

Thanks!  I'll look at that redbook.

Guy Gardoit
z/OS Systems Programming

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Mark Zelden <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:42:40 -0500, Guy Gardoit <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >IMO bad thing about SYMBOLICRELATE is that the value of the symbol cannot
> be
> >changed without IPLing the system - AFAIK nothing has been provided as of
> >yet to dynamically change a symbols value.
> >
>
>
> Not true.  There used to be SYMUPDTE that was documented in the
> additional material section for book SG24-5451:
> Parallel Sysplex - Managing Software for Availability
> ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245451/
>
> **See the Redbook for cautions / caveats when using the program!
>
> But since z/OS 1.6 there is IBM distributed object deck in
> SYS1.SAMPLIB(IEASYMUP).
>
> We link it as a usermod into SYS1.LINKLIB.   Although, I've never used
> it except on my sandbox LPARs.
>
> I don't recall if IEASYMUP is documented anywhere other than the
> SYMUPDTE documentation from the Redbook.
>
> Mark
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