AUTOCALL statement

The AUTOCALL control statement prompts the binder to perform incremental (or immediate) autocall using only the given library as the search library to resolve symbol references. See Resolving external references for more information on autocall.

The syntax of the AUTOCALL statement is:

AUTOCALL          ddname | pathname

ddname: Specifies the name of a DD statement that describes a PDSE program object library, a PDS library containing object modules or load modules, or a z/OS® UNIX directory or archive library file.
pathname: Specifies the absolute or relative pathname for a z/OS UNIX directory or archive library file. See Binder syntax conventions for a discussion of continuations and lower case letters.

Placement: The AUTOCALL control statement can be placed anywhere in the job stream or input data set.

Note:

This statement can be specified at any time during primary and secondary input to the binder. However, if there are any references left unresolved after any number of AUTOCALL control statements, the binder does not diagnose them.
If no autocall (NCAL or CALL=NO) is in effect, incremental autocall is not performed. See Binder options reference for information on the CALL and NCAL option.
The AUTOCALL statement replaces one form of the LIBRARY statement which was supported by the Language Environment® prelinker but is not supported by the binder. (See Binder extensions supporting the Language Environment.)
No symbol renaming is done when the binder attempts to resolve references during incremental autocall.