On 22 Sep 2009 12:59:30 -0700, [email protected] (Thompson, Steve) wrote:
>Whatever technique used to pass a long parm is not going to be >safely handled byt the old, standard parm passing scheme because >a long parm passed that way will break old, standard programs. >Some new technique that can be verified by new programs is >needed or a lot of stable production jobs are going to die. If we were that strict in backwards compatibility, nothing would get changed, and we would be using 30 year technology. Oh, we are! (for the most part). When we have old programs, they are in old jobs, with old parms and old documentation on how to use them. But when we upgrade them, it would be nice to have more options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
