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==IOBSPSVC flag for XDAP and SAM and PAM coexistence==

The IOBSPSVC flag (logically, the '''IOB''''s '''S'''AM and '''P'''AM '''SVC''' flag) is available, and which causes Sequential Access Methods appendages<ref>{{cite manual|publisher=IBM|title=IBM System/360 Operating System Sequential Access Methods Program Logic Manual|id=Y28-6604-1|date=January 1967|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/plm_1966-67/Y28-6604-1_Sequential_Access_Methods_PLM_Jan67.pdf}}</ref> to be bypassed. This enhancement, which was first implemented with SVS, but was not retrofitted to previous versions of the OS, significantly facilitated processing a dataset already OPENed for BSAM or BPAM, while using XDAP.

Otherwise, certain pre-SVS SAM and PAM appendages could cause random supervisor storage overlays when presented with certain XDAP channel programs. An obvious circumvention, for pre-SVS systems asAs IBM did not guarantee system security and data integrity on thesepre-SVS systems, an obvious circumvention was to utilize only those XDAP channel programs which did not also utilize RPS as it was the RPS-type XDAP channel programs which were confusing the SAM and PAM appendages, thereby leading to therandom supervisor storage overlays.

==References==