Craddock, Chris wrote: > Rick Fochtman asked: > >I'm trying to understand the differences between "LOAD MODULES" and > >"PROGRAM OBJECTS" as they are stored in a PDS or PDSE. > > Unfortunately the program object internal format is entirely > OCO. I don't know of anyone (outside IBM) who has found the > secret decoder ring for PDSE program objects although I am > sure many have tried. I guess you've already run IEHIBALL on > it and found it startlingly different than a load module.
I don't think it's *that* bad. Someone did post a program here a year or so ago that decoded parts of the IEWPLMH thing. When I looked at it briefly some time ago, it appeared to have an OCO header, followed by mostly documented other IEW structures. Not, obviously, that it's a good thing to be using stuff that can change without notice. What IBM has done, to their credit, is improve the Binder API with every release. It's pretty much at a usable state now in z/OS 1.4 and higher, *and* - it's downward compatible! Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
