The shop I worked in was a bank that ran IBM's CPCS check processing software. I don't know why, but the main CPCS task had to run APF and required that all called programs also come from APF libraries. Even the most ho-hum benign programs.
Add to that requirement a corporate security policy against running production jobs from STEPLIB/JOBLIB on the grounds that link list libraries could be 'monitored', but who knew what might live in private libraries. The resulting effect on LNKLSTxx was significant. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 8:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Linklist and APF Be careful what you ask for; you might get it. Some APF programs invoke non-APF programs. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2018 10:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Linklist and APF Putting on my security preacher hat, I might argue that programs that do not need APF (i.e., test successfully without it) should not be in an APF library. Granted, your story is from simpler times (I would assume). Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2018 6:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Linklist and APF My very first oh-dark-thirty support call as a sysprog was for a program I had just updated. I had cluelessly assembled it using JCL that had RENT,REFR in the link edit step. After testing, I moved it from the non-APF test library to the APF production library. Big S0C4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
