It's true that IEFBR14 will now get special treatment for the purposes of batch allocation. I don't know if I would call that a "reserved word."
We thought about the steplib case. If a programmer writes his own IEFBR14, he can expect the system to behave as if it were the "real" IEFBR14 shipped with the product. If that is undesirable, he can ask the system programmer to disable the function in the ALLOCxx parmlib member. Or he can choose a different name for his program. One of the tenets of this design was that existing JCL would not have to be changed to get the benefit of the new function. That may mean that some people who thought they were enhancing an IBM-supplied program need to take some action to differentiate themselves from the IBM copy. There is no assistance for other programs at this time. The IBM-supplied IEFBR14 program has the well-known property of *not* using any of the DDs coded in the JCL. It is this property that the function takes advantage of. Steve - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
