On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:26:36 -0600, Frank Swarbrick wrote:

>I am such an applications person.  Only I don't count that as a flaw.  Tools 
>are (should be) there to make life easier.  Such a useful tool would be a 
>system level "JOBLIB" that would be searched by default if a module can not be 
>located in a JCL level JOBLIB or STEPLIB.  I just cannot imagine *why* anyone 
>would be against it.  It has too many good points and not, in my opinion, many 
>bad ones.  I would not suggest any type of caching like LNKLIST because of the 
>REFRESH issue you mention.  Just a general "hey, search here too!".
>
No caching ==> poor performance.  Frequent refresh ==> poor performance.
You can't win.  The ideal would be an LLA that refreshed automatically
and incrementally whenever a STOW was performed on any of its catenands.
We're not there yet.

Would the JCL INCLUDE facility help you here?

-- gil

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