Is IDCAMS and APF program?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a pretty common sort of thing to do and it works for me <g>
>
> Are you saying "When I ATTACHX IEFBR14 everything works as I expect but when 
> I ATTACHX IDCAMS I get the funny completion code"? That somehow seems 
> unlikely. From ATTACHX's point of view, IEFBR14 and IDCAMS are pretty much 
> the same thing.
>
> Not your situation, but IIRC, DETACH does in fact post the ECB if and only if 
> the subtask has not yet completed -- that is, DETACH "completes" the subtask. 
> IIRC.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Steve Thompson
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 4:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Question About ATTACHX and ECB
>
> I'm doing some work and needed to do an ATTACHX with an ECB.
>
> So for test purposes I'm attaching IDCAMS. It runs and gives CC=0.
>
> Ok, in the main task, I've done the ATTACHX with the ECB and then went and 
> did a few instructions and then did a WAIT for the ECB.
>
> CPU trace shows I don't get dispatch again until the POST is effected for the 
> ECB.
>
> I've looked at the ECB and my understanding of the doc for ATTACHX is that it 
> gets posted with the CC from the sub task, or ABEND if it is that the program 
> ABENDed.
>
> My ECB has, what appears to be, an RB address.
>
> Now I did have it giving me back the zero (hey, ATTACH IEFBR14, it works).
>
> But now with IDCAMS or an internal program (written to give S0C3 to test what 
> happens), I'm getting other than what is documented.
>
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