On Monday 08 June 2009 16:20, Steven B Jones wrote: > 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. .....
That reminds me of something I saw in the early 1980s, i.e. a home-written utility called IEFBR14 which was designed to run in batch jobs to clean up certain files, but I'm not sure what it really was doing. I also remember a special version of such a utility that was called IEFBR15. > ... If that is undesirable, he can ask the system programmer to disable > the function in the ALLOCxx parmlib member. ... The system can determine if a home-grown version of IEFBR14 is present in STEPLIB or JOBLIB, perhaps by checking for a length longer than 8 bytes. There could be an option in ALLOCxx to tell the system to check for the IBM version of IEFBR14, or a longer customer-written version. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.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
