Operands

FROMZONE

specifies the zone containing the modules specified on the MODULE operand. The specified zone must be a target zone and must not be the same as the zone specified on the preceding SET command.

Note:

FROMZONE is a required operand for the LINK MODULE command.
The zone specified on FROMZONE must be defined in the same global zone as the zone specified on the preceding SET command.

INTOLMOD

specifies the load modules that should be link-edited to include the modules specified on the MODULE operand. These load modules must be defined in the zone specified on the preceding SET command.

Note:

INTOLMOD is a required operand for the LINK MODULE command.
Do not specify a copied (single-CSECT) load module. You cannot use the LINK MODULE command to add modules to a single-CSECT load module; such load modules do not have any link-edit utility control statements that allow for the proper management of a multiple-module load module.

MODULE

specifies the modules that should be linked into the load modules specified on the INTOLMOD operand.

Note:

MODULE is a required operand for the LINK MODULE command.
Do not specify a module having the same name as a module installed in the set-to zone that is already part of the load module being updated.
You can specify a module that is from a totally copied library or that is a single-CSECT load module. However, you cannot specify a module that needs to be assembled.

RC

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

Before SMP/E processes the LINK MODULE 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 MODULE command. Otherwise, the LINK MODULE 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 MODULE 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 SYSMODs containing eligible updates to other libraries, but processing fails for SYSMODs containing unprocessed elements for the out-of-space library (and it fails for any SYSMODs that are dependent on the failed SYSMODs). For guidance on setting up the desired retry processing,see SMP/E for z/OS User's Guide. For more information about OPTIONS entries, see SMP/E for z/OS Reference.

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.