On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 21:48, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.


I think he was referring to HLASM's use of directories for maclibs.


> It's essentially a tasklib provided by the Initiator and doesn't depend on
> any access method.
>

Surely it's not using CCWs against PDSEs? FAMS...?

Tony H.


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> Subject: Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries
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> 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?)
>
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