On 7/20/2020 11:48 AM, nobody in particular wrote:
On 01/05/2020 10:38, Eric Jackson wrote:
On 04/30/2020 21:26, dwegscheid@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the information. Coming back to the question:
is it legitimate to have a copy of the transient libraries so that I
can run load modules than someone else created? If so, where can one
find them for MVS 3.8?
No. The transient library was a licensed product. IBM will not sell
you a license for it to run on Hercules. If you did find the modules
somewhere, IBM would consider you in violation of their intellectual
property rights (IANAL, but that was the phrase used when I worked for
IBM) but they would consider you too small a fish to bother with
unless you started to compete with them in some visible way.
I doubt a guy running MVS 3.8J is going to compete with IBM, even in an invisible way.
The question is probably more whether the LE abomination will even run
on MVS/SP than whether somebody can find the modules or whether IBM will care.
The Transient Library predated the "LE abomination", it was the runtime
library for programs created by the PL/I Optimizer. It would run on
3.8J perfectly fine. For that matter it would also run on MVT just fine.
It was also really cheap, I think about $14 per month per machine back
when I had to care about such things.
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