On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 23:38:23 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
>The issue on STEPLIB is simply that IBM doesn't see a business case to support 
>it. Part of that support would be an update to APF and program control for 
>paths. Would you want individual executables in STEPLIB, or only directories? 
>RFE?
> 
Directories.  Similar to the facilities provided for Assembler STEPLIB.  I 
suspect
much of the accommodation was in access methods, not in HLASM.

Can a program object in a DSFS be used equally by shell as an executable
and by JCL EXEC PGM=?

Does it receive a UNIX-like argc, argv[], envp[] or a CALL R1 plist, or
it depends?

Where's the DSFS User's Guide to answer such questions?

>________________________________________
>From:  Paul Gilmartin
>Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2024 1:57 PM
>
>But UNIX program objects are "really files".  "cp -p" works on then.
>
>But content Supervision relies heavily on the elaborate format.  Part
>of the reason that UNIX directories don't work in STEPLIB
>concatenation.  (Idea?)

-- 
gil

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