On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 00:31:51 +0000, David W Noon wrote: >On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:28:23 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote > >[snip] >> But can I be sure I'm using the real IEBGENER, not ICEGENER, or SYNCGENR, >> or WTFGENER? Will SYSPRINT tell me? Ah! SYSPRINT doesn't tell me it's >> ICEGENER, unless ICEGENER mimics IEBGENER's SYSPRINT when called as >> IEBGENER. > >Just get a directory listing of SYS1.LINKLIB. If IEBGENER is a normal >member then it will be the old OS/360 utility, otherwise it will be an >alias of either ICEGENER or SYNGENER. The alias directory entry will >usually name the main member it is aliasing. This is because the usual >instructions to install one of the sort-based GENER utilities include >renaming IEBGENER to OLDGENER. > Always assuming that the systems programmer followed instructions and did ALIAS rather than copy.
But DDLIST shows me ICEGENER in LPALIB and IEBGENER in LINKLIB, and the eyecatchers leave me confident it's IEBGENER. It would sure be nice if IEBGENER, like HLASM, identified itself in all the empty space in the first SYSPRINT line, even as far as PTF level. In some cases, IBM (I think) provides the aliases (many!): _________ IEWL 1 IEWBLINK 000008A0 020505 00 ANY 24 _________ IEWLDRGO 1 IEWBLINK 000008A0 020505 00 ANY 24 _________ IEWLF128 1 HEWLKED 00010688 01120E 00 24 24 _________ IEWLF440 1 HEWLKED 00010688 01120E 00 24 24 _________ IEWLF880 1 HEWLKED 00010688 01120E 00 24 24 _________ IEWLOAD 1 IEWBLINK 000008A0 020505 00 ANY 24 _________ IEWLOADI 1 IEWBLINK 000008A0 020505 00 ANY 24 _________ IEWLOADR 1 IEWBLINK 000008A0 020505 00 ANY 24 and even: _________ IEBGENR 1 IEBGENER 0000A820 05000E 00 24 24 Is this a hint that the user should code IEBGENR rather than IEBGENER to get the site's preferred copy program? And that if the site creates an alias for ICEGENER that alias should be IEBGENR, not IEBGENER? Thanks gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
