I believe there are/were(?) products that allow(ed) dynamic allocation of steplib, but you never could do it with raw (native) TSO.
-teD Original Message From: Tony Harminc Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 01:10 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Cannot allocate Steplib? On 12 March 2016 at 17:21, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> wrote: > I just started getting this error, though I cannot remember the last time > I tried to (re)allocate steplib. > > IKJ56236I FILE STEPLIB INVALID, FILENAME RESTRICTED > This has been the case since before the dawn of Dynamic Allocation as we know it today. Even in MVT TSO, which used DAIR, but not Dynalloc (though they share the SVC number 99), it was not allowed to allocate or free STEPLIB or JOBLIB on the fly. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
