Re: SXMACLIB

---In [email protected], <gerhardp@...> wrote :

>> That's not correct. I'm making the source
>> code and even the assembly JCL portable
>> between MVS/380 and z/OS. So long as
>> you follow the published rules, everything
>> works like magic.

> No; sane people will keep non-IBM stuff out of IBM libraries. It's

MVS/380 is published by Jujitsu, not IBM,
and Jujitsu thought it was easier to add
"LG" etc to SYS1.MACLIB than to
IFOX00, which is an internal implementation
decision.

> easier for others to concatenate another macro library ahead of 
> SYS1.MACLIB.

No, no such dataset exists on z/OS, because
"LG" is part of ASMA90, so it is not part of the
concatenation or the JCL. I want such JCL to
work on MVS/380 unchanged, not have to be
updated to point to some non-standard
macro library.

> My typical test procedures have provisions for nine 
> libraries, with SYS1.MACLIB the second, and all replaceable with 
> symbolic parameters.

Your test procedures that don't exist on a
typical z/OS box. The "LG" instruction
exists on a typical z/OS box though. And
it appears on a typical MVS/380 box too.
Part of what makes MVS/380 such a great
development environment.

BFN. Paul.