On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 02:09:20 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:

>Program did not need APF. Shared production library contained other programs 
>that did need it. Until my bad JCL, it had never been a problem. I guess times 
>were simpler then...
> 
I believe that until a fairly recent OS release LNKLST did not support a mixture
of APF and non-APF libraries.  So if you wanted your program accessible without
STEPLIB it was (almost) necessary to put it in an APF library.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Mills
>Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2018 7:05 PM
>
>Putting on my security preacher hat, I might argue that programs that do not 
>need APF (i.e., test successfully without it) should not be in an APF library. 
>Granted, your story is from simpler times (I would assume).
> 
There's the dilemma of how faithfully the test environment should mimic
the production environment.  Should the program have been tested at
oh-dark-thirty, from an authorized library, with live data ...?

-- gil

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