On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:47:39 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >Far easier just to have a program to invoke the application program, >as Charles original posited. In these OCO days, there are very few >shops indeed that would accept a mod (aka ZAP) to something as central >as the initiator. > Of course, not everyone is entitled to write an APF authorized program, either.
>> If the job step contains DD STDPARM, that data set will be opened and read. > >Hey - as a bonus the program could support parm strings > 100. :-) > Oops; don't start that again; I meant to write STDENV. >> If that data set contains TZ="some string" and that string is a >> valid POSIX time zone indication, the SVC screening will be >> installed to use that time zone for LOCALTIME. > >Or just get the needed info from the appropriate UNIX place... > That drags LE into the picture. Some users resent LE. >I think the two obstacles are the fact of a mod, and that it will >catch only SVC versions of TIME. I would guess that things like LE, >and perhaps other common runtime environments, may increasingly use >other forms of TIME that wouldn't be caught. > If it's LE, can't it use UNIX services (USS) directly; no need to STCK? As much as I can, I'll stick with USS, where the facility is intrinsic. Thanks for your interest. gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
