Probably started out as a "general purpose" invocation. IIRC, IFGACB AM=VSAM
is the default, while AM=VTAM is an (the?) alternative.
-jc-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Charles Mills
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 6:49 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Is there a DSECT macro that maps VSAM ACB MACR1, etc.?
>
> Nope, that's it! Thanks. Vaguely remember it. (I obviously don't write a
> whole lot of VSAM assembler
> programs.) Not mentioned in "DFSMS Macro Instructions" and a search of
> SYS1.MACLIB didn't turn up
> anything. (It's squirreled away in SYS1.AMODGEN.) Definitely from the "hide
> your light under a bushel"
> school of documentation.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Ed Jaffe
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 4:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Is there a DSECT macro that maps VSAM ACB MACR1, etc.?
>
> On 5/22/2014 4:17 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
> > Is there a DSECT macro that maps VSAM ACB MACR1, MACR2, MACR3 and MACR4?
> > Roughly analogous to DCBD? Or is SHOWCB, etc., the only supported
> interface?
>
> IFGACB? Or do you need something else?
>
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