Unless IBM has enhanced z/OS to allow EXEC PGM=path, I wouldn't expect a program object in DSFS to work.
STEPLIB is a general facility, unrelated to HLASM. It's essentially a tasklib provided by the Initiator and doesn't depend on any access method. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2024 9:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)? 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
