On Nov 8, 2012, at 03:45, Sharuff Morsa3 wrote: > Sequence numbers is one of those topics where opinions divide. HLASM - > written in HLASM, has had their sequence numbers stripped and stored in > UTF8 on a Jazz server. We use RTC and Jazz for HLASM. Its an integrated > system - source control and project management, all together in RTC. > I oncce heard of an SDS (later Xerox) Sigma system that kept its source files in something akin to a KSDS data set with the sequence numbers as keys. Programmers had no choice. But inserting or deleting a line might have been an efficient local operation.
Old GE/Dartmouth BASIC was somewhat similar. Its RENUMBER utility adjusted GOTO statements to match the renumbered lines. I don't know what BASIC is nowadays. Would that z/OS got so UTF8-savvy. -- gil
