Reader Feedback and Insights: Library List Management

Hey, Ted:

IBM's latest assault on the library list problem was to increase the number of libraries in a list. This only makes list management worse.

I have used a combination of commands whose sources I have long forgotten. They are PUSHLIBL, POPLIBL for saving and restoring library lists. The other command is SETLIBL, and its associated CRTLIBLOBJ and CHGLIBOBJ commands, to create library list sets as data areas.

I found that these commands are easy to use in CL programs and in homegrown menu management applications. I keep these in my toolkit as I go from one legacy shop to another.

--Dean

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