On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:14:52 -0500, Walt Farrell ([email protected]) wrote about "Re: Dynamic Steplib and z/OS 2.3?" (in <[email protected]>):
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:40:59 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dynamic STEPLIB has been discussed in these fora so often that I suspect >> it's the subject of numerous RFEs. I suspect there are technical reasons >> that IBM has not rushed to provide the function. Is the design of OS/360 >> such that any dynamic STEPLIB would be incomplete or have unintended >> consequences? > > Any dynamic STEPLIB functionality introduces potential System Integrity> > exposures, because some parts (modules) of a program may have been loaded> from one library and others from a different, incompatible library. Such an exposure can just as easily occur from a static concatenation for STEPLIB/JOBLIB, so allowing dynamic allocation is not a significant increase in such exposure. It is up to the site's programmers to ensure that the load libraries in use in a job step are mutually compatible. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
