Products that can be invoked under LIBDEF for ISPLLIB must be coded to recognize and support it - otherwise any bog-standard LOADs could be issued without awareness of the tasklib DCB requirements and you end up with an S806. If the product sticks to just "ISPEXEC SELECT" to invoke any other programs, then you are probably OK - however if there is a "LOAD" lurking in the code, then it must be handled correctly.
ISPF has made this easier in recent years with the introduction of the QLIBDEF service so that a product can query the ISPLLIB and dynamically allocate its own tasklib to pass on the LOAD DCB keyword. I would suggest that if you have an IBM product whose ISPF interface does not support LIBDEF for ISPLLIB, then consider raising this as a PMR/ETR. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: 22 July 2011 13:28 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: dynamic STEPLIB In <[email protected]>, on 07/22/2011 at 02:40 AM, Juergen Keller <[email protected]> said: >And I do not understand why IBM does not offer an "official" way of >doing this which is maintained with the approprate z/OS release. IBM does, and it's pretty long in the tooth. It's restricted to the READY prompt, which is a RPITA, but if you're using ISPF then LIBDEF should do the trick. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
