My last post has elicited several off-list clarifications and caveats, which were certainly valuable.
They were also, in a sense, irrelevant. I had used the behavior of LOAD and DELETE to make the point that z/OS and its predecessors must and do virtualize some operations. Shmuel's comments, which suggested that I did not understand some things that I have understood for many years, were ad hominem and, finally irrelevant. My problem with his posts is not that he disagrees with me; it is that they are gratuitously ad hominem and motivated by a desire to make debaters' points without really contributing to the clarification of the issues under discussion. He quotes others' posts selectively and he is quick, too quick, to impute stupidity to people who dfisagree with him. He has appointed himself as a sort of intellectual policeman of IBM-MAIN; but his finally very pedestrian, detail-ridden intellect is inadeq On 11/29/12, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> wrote: > Slight correction. A non-GLOBAL load will not let other address spaces find > your load module implicitly, but it will let other tasks in your address > space find it through the LOAD service. > > Bill Fairchild > Programmer > Rocket Software > 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA > t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: [email protected] * w: > www.rocketsoftware.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bill Fairchild > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups > > LOADing a module somehow other than GLOBALly does cause the loaded module to > be implicitly known to other address spaces, because the operating system > adds such implicit knowledge into its control block structure for all loaded > modules that will be findable through the published rules by which the LOAD > service works. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA t. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
