On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:22 -0500, Arthur Gutowski <[email protected]> wrote:

>Just a thought - write an SMP/E USERMOD to REPLACE the IBM-supplied
>ICHRIN03 in SYS1.LPALIB.  Pro:  it eliminates the duplication and LPA load
>sequencing issue.  Cons:  You have to write and maintain MCS, and re-install
>for every OS upgrade (but PRO:  *if* IBM ever changes the format, you find
>out before the first IPL); and if you're a multi-system environment, a
>USERMOD is tough to maintain if the table is not common across all systems.

That would work (but the format is extremely unlikely to change; all
enhancements would be via the STARTED class).

In any case, the simplest approach may be to MLPA the module in, from
whatever library it lives in.  Though that will waste 8 bytes or so of PLPA,
I suppose.

-- 
Walt Farrell, CISSP
IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design

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