What is Job Pack Area

Hunny Sachdeva · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 20 Location: india

What is Job Pack Area?
In system search order it comes earlier than steplib.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:13 pm

Hunny Sachdeva · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 20 Location: india

Anuj,

i know Job Pack Area comes first but i am not very sure what it is exactly

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:09 pm

Google is your friend -- the link to this material was on the first page of results from "job pack area":

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:12 pm

Robert -- in a crude sense, I believe, one can say JPA is equivalent to "Nucleus"?

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:17 pm

Anuj -- NO! Nucleus refers to the kernel of the operating system, some of which is loaded into each address space -- but a lot of which runs in the master JCL address space. Application programs, once loaded into memory, are also part of the JPA.

There is also a specific data set, SYS1.NUCLEUS, which contains the operating system components -- normally referring to nucleus means some or all of this data set.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:19 pm

Anuj,

I always thought that Nucleus was OPS Sys modules.
whereas JPA is 'application' modules.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:41 pm

Thanks Robert.

I was trying to search the basic definition for JPA and come across a link where in they said, program will be searched in JPA, LPA and Nucleus -- their explanation seems to be correct but my inference about that was not correct. (not saved the URL that time but now it seems that I should search again)

ah..Google does not seem to be friend today , "that no" is too profound..!

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:41 pm

Thanks Dick, does that mean scope of JPA is local to JOBs?

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:44 pm

probably Started Tasks are also included,
but my understanding is from an application developers perspective,
know enough about the environment to know who to get to fix things.
In this case, Robert is the person to know.

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:52 pm

JPA scope is address space -- I haven't investigated them much but I would include TSO sessions, started tasks, batch jobs all under the umbrella of "address space". I suspect (but as I said am not sure) that JPA doesn't really apply to Unix System Services address spaces, although there may something similar involved.

Hunny Sachdeva · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 20 Location: india

All-

Can anybody explain in layman terms to somebody who has never heard of What is Job Pack Area? Where is it?

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:32 pm

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:32 pm

Dare I answer in again but others are around to correct us...

An area of main storage containing reenterable routines from system libraries. Their presence in main storage saves loading tim or in other words, an area of virtual storage that contains reenterable routines that are loaded at IPL time and can be used concurrently by all tasks in the system.

Hunny Sachdeva · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 20 Location: india

Anuj-

Your defination is more of LPA. How is JPA different from LPA?

dbzTHEdinosauer-

When i say where is it.. i meant common area or private.. i thought that was obvious

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:41 pm

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.ieaa600/iea2a67051.htm

the job pack area is the collection of load modules
loaded using the standard MVS Load Services

for more info on the subject search read and meditate on

ABC of System Programming ( s390 )
vol01 sg245597.pdf
vol02 sg245652.pdf
vol03 sg245653.pdf
vol04 sg245654.pdf
vol05 sg245655.pdf

ABC of System Programming ( zOS )
vol01 sg246981.pdf
vol02 sg246982.pdf
vol03 sg246983.pdf
vol05 sg246985.pdf
vol06 sg246986.pdf
vol07 sg246987.pdf
vol08 sg246988.pdf
vol09 sg246989.pdf
vol10 sg246990.pdf
vol11 sg246327.pdf

zOS basics
vol01 sg246366.pdf

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:46 pm

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:31 pm

nevilh · Active User Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 262

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:38 pm

nevilh,

good catch. sorta hoping that the TS would have seen it, but you were faster.

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

OK Hunny,

The link below should give you more than you want to know about the JPA.

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.ieaa600/iea2a67051.htm

haohao · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:08 am

how many common area exist in the whole z/OS system?
only one common area that shared by all address space or every address space has one copy?
when modules defined in the linklist to be executed,where these modules should be load into? the common area or the private area?

these questions have puzzled me for a long time,please help me make it clear,thanks in advance!!

Hunny Sachdeva · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 20 Location: india

dbzTHEdinosauer-
every address space has private area and common area that it shares with other address spaces..

and all the manuals say it as AREA which you are not aware of i think..

nevilh-
that means Job pack area is not a part of common area.. so is it under private area..

anuj-
did not hear from you again.. LPA<-->JPA

all-
i had no idea of what a job pack area is.. so i posted this query hoping that somebody will give a clear answer..