(IBM-MAIN, this is a thread that started on IMS-L, but I thought I might get some useful discussion from IBM-MAIN as well.)
This is puzzling to me. Are you advocating having JOBLIB/STEPLIBs that specify every single library that your particular jobs needs to access? This seems to me to be (no offense) nuts! I am of the total opposite inclination. I would much prefer to have a "system search chain", as it were, that contains all of the libraries that have load modules that need to be executed. As a developer I, in fact, would prefer to have our application loadlib's also in LINKLIST. The only reason I gave up on asking for that is because of the whole "need to refresh the LLA" thing. VSE is so much simpler in this regard. There is a "permanent search chain" that has all of the standard "load libraries" in it. Things such as TCP/IP, DB2, DL/I, etc., as well as our production application library. Then in your job's JCL if you wanted, say, to execute the test version of a program which needs to call the production version of a subroutine you need only specify an "override" library. This li! brary will be searched first, and if a module is not found then it will search the system search chain. To me LINKLIST is similar to this. But I've been told that we can't use it for application libraries because then the LLA would need to be refreshed each time we made a change to something in our application load library. Frustrating... Frank -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation Lakewood, CO USA P: 303-235-1403 F: 303-235-2075 On 6/10/2009 at 3:27 PM, in message <[email protected]>, "Wormsbaker, Virgil" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan's way will probably work better for you. Use the DFSRESLB DD for > APF Authorization. > > As I said, different strokes for different folks. > > However, I have never been, and never will be, be a fan for putting > datasets in LINKLIST. LLA isn't much better. >>> The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
