In a recent note, Steve Comstock said:

> Date:         Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:31:17 -0600
> 
> Well I was surprised to learn that IDCAMS
> invoked TMP; just never thought about it
> doing that; so I wondered if there were
> other similar surprises out there. Maybe
> I'm way wrong here, it just seemed that
> using TMP was overkill for the task at
> hand.
> 
BPXWDYN would be a more modern, lower overhead alternative,
*except* for Mark's concerns: it's lexically idiosyncratic
(not compatible with ALLOCATE; only close), and it lacks
many keywords of ALLOCATE.

There oughta be a Requirement ...

-- gil
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