You must have missed my many posts over on the Turnkey Group!? For my IFOX00 refurbishment project I took the source code that was generated by Paul Gorlinsky¡¯s excellent work and merged in some later Usermod changes contributed by Greg Price. Additionally, I updated the code to address the problem introduced when the IFOX00 developers shipped an APAR that did not follow the rules for GETMAIN parameter lists as we discussed in previous postings years ago. We never really fully resolved that issue but at least the source was updated to avoid the Getmain Abend.
The IFOX00 refurbishment project was incredibly time consuming. For example, even a seemingly trivial change like supporting the _ underscore character in variable names took days of work due to some IFOX00 developers ignoring coding standards and hard coding values.
Subsequently, I put my IFOX00 refurbishment project on hold because I prioritized some later projects that would provide significant benefits to a larger number of MVS 3.8 users and enable the transition to 3390 DASD. Hence my contributions and postings on the Turnkey Group. After completion of a current large project I will return to the IFOX00 refurbishment project. So, nothing really to contribute at this time as the IFOX00 code is definitely WIP.
