Tom, I would whole heatedly agree with you, except in this case. An ISPF table that has been modified to suite the personel needs of the site is only valid as long as its based upon the current itteration of the module. Were this table to be updated via maintenance (little chance) then the usermoded copy would not longer have any integrity. The only option at that point would be to remake that ISPF table from the current delivered copy. (i.e. Your version that you applied via usermod may not contain a variable that the new one, delivered via maintenance, now contains)
Using a usermod would however raise a flag to whoever was doing maintenance that some modification had been made to this module, were that person not the one who made the original update they may be inclined to just re-apply the usermod. If you were going to do something like this with a usermod, you would not want to keep the modified version of the ISPF table around where it could be re-applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
