The ENQ for program management is SYSIEWL not SPFEDIT, but it's similar logic.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Andrew Rowley <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Zowe for systems programmer ? On 5/09/2018 2:03 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote: > Unlike SYSDSN, SPFEDIT is not taken care of by the system. There are > plenty of IBM and non-IBM programs that do not follow the SPFEDIT ENQ > conventions, and I don't think any product other than ISPF itself > would be APARable for failing to do so. Since it is not universal, it > does not carry the same level of reliability. It's like a gentlemen's > agreement in a world where not all are gentlemen. All serialization mechanisms are gentlemen's agreements. The system doesn't really take care of SYSDSN - you are free to update a dataset with DISP=SHR if that is what you specify. Which products request their own ENQs and update PDS members without SPFEDIT or exclusive SYSDSN? I seem to recall that other components do use SPFEDIT for member serialization - the linkage editor/binder comes to mind. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
