Paul Gilmartin wrote: >It's the UNIX way: lotsa little things that connect, or perhaps nest, nicely.
>Can we take this out of the hypothetical arena? May I infer that today >the "application" is being happily called from JCL or TSO, and a user who >wishes to enable the option adds a DD statement to JCL or an ALLOCATE >to TSO? >Is the application in LINKLIST? STEPLIB? Elsewhere (specify) LINKLIST >is the only easy case. It's always pretty hard to change STEPLIB. I >might be able to suggest a way; another doll I haven't played with. But >not if it's a STEPLIB involving uncatalogued data sets. >And you want to make this application available under UNIX with as >little cognitive dissonance to the user as possible? It's not a specific application: we have an API that any random application can use. So yes, today there are applications that are being happily called from wherever. They want to add calls to our API, so they do so. Sometimes they need to enable things via the DD DUMMY. And yes, cognitive dissonance is what we'd like to avoid! Not sure what LINKLIST and STEPLIB have to do with anything here-those aren't the DD involved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
