On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:59:08 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:36:58 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >> >>AFAIK, the Binder can do anything that the Linkage Editor can do. In >>particular, the Binder is perfectly capable of producing a load module, which >>is stored in a PDS, or a program object, stored in a PDSE or Unix file. >> >We had a problem, appearing only fairly recently I believe, where a customer >using non-IBM software on non-IBM hardware found load modules produced > by Binder failing. Regressing to Linkage Editor resolved the problem. >Customer's vendor's tech support diagnosed it as unexpected (mis-)alignment >of TXT records in the load modules. > >-- gil > For most of the programs I write, the Linkage Editor can produce a MAP on SYSPRINT on a single page of about 20 lines, and that's all I need to see. The Binder, however, produces 9 pages and about 150 lines for the same program. I wish the Binder was as capable of brevity as the Linkage Editor. For that reason alone I prefer the Linkage Editor for load modules.
Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
