Re: SXMACLIB

His test procedure works because he doesn't pollute sys1.maclib.

This his test procedure will run unchanged on both mvs and z/os.

Joe



On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 20:38 kerravon86-/[email protected] [H390-MVS] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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