Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

>>Ok. If you say so. What was the first IBM utility?

>I don't know[1] what the first IBM utility was that did a dynamic allocation, 
>but it wasn't IEHMOVE, because IEHMOVE did no such thing[2]. IEHMOVE was 
>documented as requiring a DD statement with unit, volume and disposition; it 
>used OPENJ to access individual data sets on the volume.

Shmuel, thank you very much for your kind and interesting answer. Much 
appreciated. :-)

>[1] I suspect that it was SMP.

Those OCO thing makes guessing more difficult... ;-)

>[2] In fact, dynamic allocation didn't yet exist.

Yes,  indeed, I remember that dynamic allocation was not there at those times.

Thanks again Shmuel!

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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