If the module is not REUS then every LOAD will get a different copy. If the module is REUS but not RENT then LOAD, ENQ, CALL, DEQ, DELETE is safe. Using LOAD, SYNCH, DELETE is left as an excise for the reader. In most cases I would use LINK(X).
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bernd Oppolzer [bernd.oppol...@t-online.de] Sent: Friday, February 5, 2021 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LINK vs LOAD/CALL I would like to add: while LINK is functionally the same as LOAD - CALL - DELETE, there is an important difference: the transfer of control with LINK is known to the operating system, but with LOAD - CALL - DELETE, it is NOT known. In fact, CALL is not a supervisor action, it is simple machine instructions (very cheap). This means that if a module is not RENT and not REUS (for example), a call using LOAD - CALL - DELETE is not safe, because the system does not know that the module is in use. Another subtask can easily call the same module at the same time, if it knows the address, and it will never get another copy. You are responsible yourself for doing things right. With LINK, on the contrary, if the module is not RENT and not REUS, the system will ALWAYS fetch a new copy, when you do another LINK. (There is a "use count" in the control blocks, which is incremented and decremented during LINK processing, but of course not, when doing a CALL). Kind regards Bernd Am 05.02.2021 um 18:54 schrieb Frank Swarbrick: > I am not a systems programmer. I am a COBOL programmer who knows only enough > assembler to be dangerous. > What is the "difference" between doing a LOAD and a CALL to perform a dynamic > call and doing a LINK? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
