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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories LE
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 20, 2020

Search path for DLLs in Executable

Linux has a mechanism to have a default search path embedded in an executable when it tries to load a shared library, equivalent to DLL's on z/OS, called rpath.

This path takes precedence over some default search paths such as system search paths (similar to JPA, LPA, TASKLIB, JOBLIB, STEPLIB) and comes after their environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH (similar to LIBPATH).

It would be good if we could have similar functionality for z/OS, particularly in USS, though ideally everywhere.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 20, 2024
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.
  • Guest
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    Sep 24, 2020

    .This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.