On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:30:16 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 14 January 2015 at 17:18, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> >DYNAMNBR= on the EXEC card. >> >ref: >> >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2b6a0/16.6 >> > >> Why is there even such a parameter? >> >> Why is its default not "infinity"? > (Of course, for interactive TSO it's probably hard-coded in the logon JCL, which the user is not allowed to change. IKJEFT01 opened that door wide.)
>It used to be worse: in MVT TSO you had to specify a > >//somename DD DYNAM > Did the names have to be different? >for each potential concurrent allocation. I wonder if that's still supported... > It is, "for compatibility". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
