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Program Management/Binder

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Spot compatibility issue before run-time

Link-edit message IEW2576I is issued by z/OS BINDER and program run-time failed with S0C1. IEW2576I 5034 RESULTANT AMODE( 24 ) OF ENTRY POINT AND RMODE( ANY ) OF SEGMENT 2 MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE. Since module should have RMODE(24) if it is call...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 1 Planned for future release

Add a section identifier to the Binder API buffers

This is an enhancement suggestion for the Binder API. To correlate section level data returned by the Binder API, you need to match on section names. This is both within a single call and across calls. Example 1: The IDRL (Language Processor IDR) ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

Allow blank lines in AMASPZAP input

Allow blank lines in SYSIN for AMASPZAP to help readability. Already discussed with Jim Mulder and Barry Lichtenstein. Barry also suggested allowing for an * in column 1 to be consistent with Binder.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

JOBNAME stored in a Program Object

Customer noted that after a IEBCOPY of a Progam Library from PDS to PDSE, the JOBNAME appears in the header of Program Objects obtained in PDSE. This information is considered useless and misleading in the customer operational environment. The req...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 1 Future consideration

Ability for BINDER to tag ALIAS zfs files

It would be useful if it was possible for the BINDER to be able to tag the zFS file that has been created during its processing (chtag). If ALIAS is specified and points to a zFS location an untagged file will be created. Since the binder only pro...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

Discrimination Between Data And Code.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027615User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SAAPDE82022Title: Discrimination Between Data And Code.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 4 Not under consideration