Operands

LMODS

specify the load modules that should be relinked. Load modules specified on the LMODS operand are relinked in addition to any that matched the criteria of the CALLLIBS operand.

If you want to relink a particular set of load modules, specify their names on the LMODS operand.

If you want to relink all load modules whose LMOD entries contain a CALLLIBS subentry list, do not specify any names on the LMODS operand.

LMODS is a required operand for the LINK LMODS command, and it is mutually exclusive with MODULE, FROMZONE and INTOLMOD.

CALLLIBS

requests relinks for load modules whose LMOD entries contain a CALLLIBS subentry list. The specified name is a DDDEF named in an LMOD entry's CALLLIBS subentry list.

Load modules that match the criteria of the CALLLIBS operand are relinked in addition to any load modules specified on the LMODS operand.

If you want to relink only those load modules with particular CALLLIBS subentries, specify CALLLIBS and the specific names. If you want to relink all load modules with CALLLIBS subentries, specify CALLLIBS without any names.

CALLLIBS is mutually exclusive with MODULE, FROMZONE and INTOLMOD. CALLLIBS is a required operand for the LINK LMODS command when the LMODS operand is specified without a list of load module names. If a list of load module names is specified on the LMODS operand, then the CALLLIBS operand is not required.

CHECK

indicates that SMP/E should not relink any load modules. Instead, it should just take these actions:

Test for errors other than those that occur when the load modules are actually relinked.
Report on which load modules were relinked.

CHECK is mutually exclusive with MODULE, FROMZONE and INTOLMOD.

RC

changes the maximum return codes allowed for the specified commands. These return codes determine whether SMP/E can process the LINK LMODS command.

Before SMP/E processes the LINK LMODS command, it checks whether the return codes for the specified commands are less than or equal to the values specified on the RC operand. If so, SMP/E can process the LINK LMODS command. Otherwise, the LINK LMODS command fails. For more information about the RC operand, see Processing the SMP/E RC operand.

Note:

The RC operand must be the last operand specified on the command.
If you do specify the RC operand, return codes for commands not specified do not affect processing for the LINK LMODS command. Therefore, if you use the RC operand, you must specify every command whose return code you want SMP/E to check.

RETRY

indicates whether SMP/E should try to recover from out-of-space errors for utilities it calls.

YES

indicates that SMP/E should try to recover and retry the utility if a RETRYDDN list is available in the OPTIONS entry that is in effect. RETRY(YES) is the default.

If the retry attempt fails, the resulting x37 abend is treated as an unacceptable utility return code. In this case, processing continues for updates to other libraries, but processing fails for unprocessed updates for the out-of-space library.

If there is no RETRYDDN list, SMP/E does not try to recover from out-of-space errors, even if YES is specified.

NO

indicates that SMP/E should not try to recover from the error.