Gil,

You can rant but it works in a call also for IDCAMs, I prefer the attach but I 
am dealing with a single thread application of not my design ..

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll 
understand. - Chinese Proverb


On Feb 9, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:40:27 -0500, Scott Ford wrote:
>> 
>> I am calling a program passing an alternate ddname list for sysin/sysprint. 
>> Are there dfsms exits that will prevent me from doing this ?
> Seems unlikely, since the alternate DDNAME list is merely a
> second PARM (out of possibly many) that may be passed to
> any program.  An exit would need to know the characterists
> of the CALLed (LINKed, ATTACHed) program to know whether
> a PARM is in fact a ddname list and whether to intervene.
> Does any exit even get control at a CALL?
> 
> However, it's prerogative the called program to decide how
> or whether to process a second PARM as an alternate ddname
> list.  Typically, z/OS utilities do this; many application programs
> might not.
> 
> <RANT>
> This design is wrong!  The alternate DDNAME list should be a
> parameter to ATTACH, not passed to the ATTACHED program,
> to which the remapping of DDNAMEs should be transparent;
> invisible.  And such DDNAME mapping should apply to all
> ATTACHED programs, not only those that choose to implement
> the support.  Someone here once said he had achieved much
> (not all) of this effect with SVC screening.
> </RANT>
> 
> -- gil
> 
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