I believe that what's common to any IPL text is that the first 24 bytes do nothing more than set up a channel program to read the next n number of bytes. Whether this looks the same for MVS or SAD or xxx, I've never researched.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, September 07, 2018 1:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Report volumes with IPLText I doubt it; what signature would it look for? It would be easy to write a program that looked for a specific version of IPLTEXT, but I don't see how to do anything more general than that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 1:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Report volumes with IPLText Is there a utility that will display all mounted volumes that have IPL Text installed? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) <sdg>< Mainframe Systems Programmer - RavenTek Solution Partners ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
