Re: Anyone need a random number generator?

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Gerhard Postpischil
<[email protected]>wrote:

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> On 4/28/2010 5:32 PM, Ron Hudson wrote:
> > If I wanted to add other subroutines or functions to the
> > source code would that be ok too?
> >
> > or should I duplicate this whole file and change names?
>
> Neither? Adding something to a system library is generally
> considered undesirable; just consider what you will do when the
> latest and greatest MVS release becomes available - do you
> rename the volumes, copy all your changes from the old system,
> and then name them back?
>

Re-install the items into the new library? (also this supposes that
IBM will let us have MVS 40 A free and public domain...)


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> The common way of doing this is to use your own library, and
> concatenate it either in front, or behind, the system library
> when you run. For example:
>
> //LKED.SYSLIB DD
> // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=rons.library
>

Yes, Is there a way for my to share rons.library with others on the system
(I am pretending this is a production system and I am an operator
and system analyst in a shop with others)


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> Note that doing this requires that the format of your library be
> the same as the system's. Since SYS1.FORTLIB is a load-module
> library (PDS with RECFM=U), your link-edit output will be just
> fine. But in an earlier post you mentioned object code, which is
> what the compiler produces in SYSLIN, and you fed into to LKED
> step; these two forms are not interchangeable.
>
> and I am doing to learn in an area in which I have very little experience
so I barely understand what you are saying but I have no idea how
to properly implement it.

I may even have a random number generator in some library somewhere
that I don't know about.



> Gerhard Postpischil
> Bradford, VT
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