Ed, What you really want is not to dive so deeply into the weeds.
Bind with COMPAT=ZOSV2R1. >From the doc: COMPAT=ZOSV2R1 is the minimum level that supports preserving all boundary alignments specifications coming from ESD records. ALIGNT can be used to specify boundary alignments for both load modules and program objects without requiring the use of COMPAT(ZOSV2R1). In a simple experiment, this seemed to do the right thing. I don't have any idea about ALIGNT. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design
