And I for at least for one, am very likely to know when a dynamic IODF (or other major such change) is happening and therefore expect that I will get different results before, during and afterward if I am using one of the valuable tools :) at the same time.
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups > > I think Sam has been around long enough to understand the caveats to > traversing the control blocks without serializing. I'm sure there are some > monitoring the list that don't understand, so the discussion is good. For > the general use case, it's "good enough" as long as you understand the > caveat and are willing to live with it. > > One of the most popular and widely used freeware tools on this platform - > ShowMVS (ShowzOS), has the same caveat with many of the displays > the program provides. But most of us use it or have used it anyway > and it still is a valuable tool. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > mailto:[email protected] > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
