On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:43:05 -0600 Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
:>On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:17:29 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: :>>>> You may want to look into handling the ENQs yourself and not let SVC99 do :>>>> them. Look at S99FLAG2 bit S99NORES. This tells SVC99 to not do the :>>>> ENQ/DEQ. :>>> Unless I'm missing something, I hope this facility isn't :>>> available to nonauthorized callers. :>>You are correct it's not. :>Still, I'm trying to imagine what even an authorized program :>could usefully and safely do with a data set allocated with :>no ENQ, given that absent that ENQ any other program, even :>unauthorized, could make that data set, all its extents, and :>its DSCBs vanish without warning. :>Perhaps with a reserve on the VTOC(s)? You are aware, of course, that an authorized program can access the dataset without even going thru OPEN and without a single DD statement? -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
