I think it was some IEF (Scheduler) routines, but some of the old tie IBMers may know.
-- 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: Monday, December 2, 2024 5:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MLPA and NOPROT External Message: Use Caution On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 21:46:28 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Back in OS/360 IBM has modules linked RENT that actually weren't. I was under >the impression that all of them had been fixed. > Was COBOL a co-conspirator? A half-century ago, I was told that some customer programs linked REFR "actually weren't" and storage protection of unauthorized REFR modules couldn't be enforced without violating compatibility with previous negligent design. -- 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
