What! You don't have an IBM 088 collator handy? How do you do daily processing? <grin/>
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER- > l...@listserv.uga.edu] On Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 10:09 AM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: Use of "sequence numbering" in current HLASM source? > > I have not used sequence numbers, CAPS ON, and the like for many years. > > Those who have sentimental attachments to things of this sort---old > habits die hard in some bailiwicks---are and should be free to use > them. > > Specious arguments for their continued use are, of course, easy to > construct; but even if I had a source-program deck to drop, I should be > hard put to find the piece of unit-record equipment---What was it > called?---required to put it back in sequence. > > --jg
