<snip> Thank you for the alternatives, including the SYS1.MACLIB(BLSACTV) service, which is news to me. I don't see it documented in the guide or reference manuals, </snip> Please submit feedback asking that it be documented properly. Having a customer ask can be more helpful than just having an IBMer ask. The service was not felt to be of general enough interest or use to make it worth documenting in a book, particularly when the macro prolog has all the information. If that is not the case, that is good to understand. You have to be authorized (which can be by RACF profile) to access storage from another address space.
<snip> but the macro itself contains a description, much like a reference manual entry. Would that more macros were like this one. </snip> You will find that pretty much every executable macro interface created by the MVS element of z/OS over the past 30+ years (and from some other elements as well) is "like this one" in that regard. In fact, for some, the book is produced using the same "source" that the macro is generated from. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
