On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 16:12:12 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >Well there you go: > >//MASK EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 >//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=some.dataset.name > >Looked before, DOLR was 8/1; repeated to be sure looking at DOLR didn't change >DOLR (which would be Bad, but); ran job; now DOLR is 8/5. > Are we sure that STEPLIB allocation won't fail for some DSORG,, leaving DOLR unchanged? Will this behavior never change?
OS designers cringe at the idea of users' relying on such side effects. As several years ago when initiation was changed so PGM=IEFBR14 might bypass some recalls, which could have broken a program a user chose to name IEFBR14. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
