On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:40:37 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:54:55 -0500, Paul Edwards wrote: >>>> ... >>>You are on the very verge of re-inventing program objects in UNIX >>>files, which work that way. >> >>Thanks for the pointer. Perhaps this is the "direction" I asked >>for. I need to investigate what a "program object" is and switch >>to using that instead of the IEWL + IEBCOPY + ftp rdw format, >>now that I have control of a linker. > ><https://www.ibm.com/docs/fr/zos/2.4.0?topic=module-creating-program-object> > >Program objects may reside in either PDSE or UNIX directories, >not PDS (nor VSAM), so little hope for 3.8. Program objects would be an alternative to what I am already doing - IEWL+IEBCOPY+ftp-rdw - which doesn't work on 3.8 either. However, it was always intended that on 3.8 and current z/OS that you need to "install" any executables I ship by doing a rdw to v and iebcopy load process. Theoretical bypassing the install process is just icing on the cake, not the cake itself. However, given that program objects aren't actually documented, I will likely just stick with what I already have. And given that IEBCOPY can apparently handle devices that it doesn't know about, I might create a new theoretical device, similar to the 2314, but that has only one track per cylinder, to simplify calculations. BFN. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
