Thomas Berg wrote: >In fact, we usually do *not* have //STEPLIB in our logon procs. (Partly of >performance reasons.)
Good that you can avoid them. I agree about performance reasons, why allocate something if you don't use it at all in your session? >> Please tell me more about this dynamic steplib functions? >There are several. One can be found in CBTTAPE, others is the late Gilbert >Saint-Flour's and more. >E g CBTTAPEs dynamic steplib is used by issuing commands like these in TSO >(/rexx/clist): >1: "STEPLIB ALLOCATE DATASETS(dsname list) SHR REUSE" >2: Run the (ISPF) application >3: "STEPLIB FREE" I'm aware of them, I was wondering if you're using something exotic and elegant! ;-D One benefit is that you have fewer users to ask to logoff (or is that 'rockoff'? ;-D ) because you want to do something disruptive on a dataset. >Unfortunately this doesn't help when the users need to use both the "old" and >the "new" things at the same time... Ouch ... I feel your pain ... Thomas, many thanks for kindly answering my questions, I really appreciate it much! Please keep it up! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN