Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch

2017-11-17 Thread David Crayford
On 18/11/2017 1:29 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: Technically the compiles themselves are blazing fast. It's the linkedit/binder step that takes forever, because it statically binds the entire Swift runtime library. And yes, it is still slow, though faster than the first beta. I am told they

Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch

2017-11-17 Thread Frank Swarbrick
nt: Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch I notice that your running Swift programs. I had a play when the beta first came out but the compile times were too slow for my liking. Has it improved? On 17/11/2017 9:

Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch

2017-11-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
Yes, the JZOS batch launcher does this: the JVM itself is a bunch of DLLs. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > Is it possible to invoke a program in JCL as EXEC PGM (the actual program >

Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch

2017-11-16 Thread David Crayford
nt: Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch Yes. You need to set the LIBPATH environment variable to specify the search path https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa400/bpxug93.htm

Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch

2017-11-16 Thread Frank Swarbrick
IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch Yes. You need to set the LIBPATH environment variable to specify the searc

Re: accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch

2017-11-16 Thread David Crayford
Yes. You need to set the LIBPATH environment variable to specify the search path https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa400/bpxug93.htm. On 17/11/2017 7:49 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: Is it possible to invoke a program in JCL as EXEC PGM (the actual

accessing a Unix file system DLL in MVS batch

2017-11-16 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Is it possible to invoke a program in JCL as EXEC PGM (the actual program name, not BPXBATCH et al) and have that program be able to load a DLL from the Unix file system? I believe the answer (currently) is no, because it appears that JOBLIB/STEPLIB only works with PDS/PDSE libraries, but I