I've seen messages about programs that won't work properly if you LINK to them; I consider that bad form, just as I consider reentrant but not refreshable to be bad form. Fortunately, IFASMFDP is not such an offender.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Charles Mills [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 11:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Invoking IFASMFDP utility via CALL, LINK, ATTACH ? When you invoke it from JCL you are invoking it with LINK or something similar. Any program that runs from PGM= should run from LINK, CALL or ATTACH provided the usual "MVS" linkage convention is honored by the invoker. (Yes, it would be technically possible, but relatively unlikely, for a program to check to see if it were the jobstep program and quit or behave differently if it were not.) Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hochee Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Invoking IFASMFDP utility via CALL, LINK, ATTACH ? Wondering if anyone has attempted to invoke the SMF IFASMFDP utility (handles dumping and clearing of SMF data set logs, digital signature validation, etc.) via program invocation using CALL, LINK, or ATTACH? Some of the dfp utilities allow dynamic invocation from a program, and for those some doc is provided, however I found no equivalent doc for IFASMFDP. (probably not a good sign) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
