Not true. Our product Dorana can tell you which library a load module was
executed from. You just have to know where to look and I can't tell that
information suffice to say that IBM do provide a number of facilities to do
this but they are not, as we found out, documented very well. But alas if
you're in the USA you can't take advantage of Dorana. Maybe now that IBM
own the patent they might be willing to deal with us more so than ISOGON.
Jim K.
At 12:48 AM 16/08/2005, you wrote:
If I understand him correctly, what Chris Craddock has been trying to say
is that this problem is in general unsolvable. Perhaps an analogy will help.
Mathematicians have long known that no general method for finding the
zeros of polynomials of degree five (quintics) or greater can be devised.
This does not mean that no quintic can be solved. The very special case
(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)(x-4)(x-5) has the zeros 1,2,3,4,5. It does mean that
attempts to solve the general problem are misconceived.
If there is a need for this information in very special, carefully
delimited circumstances, it may be possible to obtain it; but in these
circumstances it would probably be better to alter your environment in a
way that makes this information available in advance by saving it somewhere.
I also conjecture that this is why IBM has been 'resistant' to supplying
this information. IBM has a long history of disliking point solutions
that are useful only in very special circumstances. Its resistance to
supporting the use of symbolics in JCL is not, for example,
truculence. It is a reflectkon of the fact that no really robust way to
provide this support can be devised.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721
USA
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