On 8/21/2013 10:21 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
In one shop, call it S to protect the guilty, the applications programmers were very reluctant, perhaps for sentimental reasons, to give up using it long after any rationale for doing so had disappeared. Making IEWL440 an alias for a more storage-intensive and much more efficient version of the linkage editor resolved this problem without discommoding the these sentimental S applications programmers.
That brings back memories; we used a program named ZLKD from SHARE, credited to Alan Fulford of "ALLIED BREWERIES, BURTON", 25/7/73 . While the original was written for MFT, picking up the partition size, it was easily converted to MVT. It checked the available storage, built a modified PARM with the appropriate SIZE parameter, and invoked the largest Linkage Editor that would fit. Our unprivileged users never had a chance to mess up <g>
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