Session O445 - JES2: Questions and Answers
SHARE 71
August 15-19, 1988
This session is kind of a free-for-all wherein you can ask technical questions
of the experts. I asked a couple of questions for which I have been unable
to get authoritative answers in Orlando.
- In $SCANTAB, PRESCAN routines are obligated to fill in SCWACBAD
if it is zero. If you specify a primitive control block via CB=
and control block indirection via CBIND=, the value of SCWACBAD
will be the primitive control block if the CBIND operation returns
zero. Is this a bug?
- Does $SCANTAB support nested vector definitions?
The answer to question 1 was "Beats us". The answer to the second question was
"We think it supports nesting, but we'll go back and ask the father of $SCAN.
They had the presence of mind not to divulge Father Scan's real name - I'd love to
wring that man's neck.
Somebody wanted to know how to tell in exit #6 if a PROC came from a PROCLIB
or was an instream PROC. IBM told him to look for a usermod on the SHARE tape
that was known to do this!
During the course of the session, it became apparent that the JES-328x
product supports PDIR. This implies that it will be difficult for me to get IBM
to address a problem I've been having with remote printer support, wherein we have
to manually enter $S commands for remote laser printers.
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