The AUTOCALL control statement prompts the binder to perform incremental
(or immediate) autocall using only the given library as the search
library to resolve symbol references. See Resolving external references for
more information on autocall.
The syntax of the AUTOCALL statement is:
AUTOCALL ddname | pathname
- ddname
- Specifies the name of a DD statement that describes a PDSE program
object library, a PDS library containing object modules or load modules,
or a z/OS® UNIX directory or archive library file.
- pathname
- Specifies the absolute or relative pathname for a z/OS UNIX directory
or archive library file. See Binder syntax conventions for
a discussion of continuations and lower case letters.
Placement: The AUTOCALL control statement can be placed
anywhere in the job stream or input data set.
Note: - This statement can be specified at any time during primary and
secondary input to the binder. However, if there are any references
left unresolved after any number of AUTOCALL control statements, the
binder does not diagnose them.
- If no autocall (NCAL or CALL=NO) is in effect, incremental autocall
is not performed. See Binder options reference for information
on the CALL and NCAL option.
- The AUTOCALL statement replaces one form of the LIBRARY statement
which was supported by the Language Environment® prelinker
but is not supported by the binder. (See Binder extensions supporting the Language Environment.)
- No symbol renaming is done when the binder attempts to resolve
references during incremental autocall.