Many thanks to all. In my normal programming, I do use the structured forms (SELECT/WHEN/OTHERWISE). For some reason, I just thought that ACS routines might be easier for some of the other sysprogs to understand with what I thought would be "simpler" logic. I really need to totally re-engineer the code instead of a simple rewrite. It is a mess. It was written mainly by a consultant back when we first went to SMS, many years ago. It was then updated by a storage administrator whose programming techniques are "interesting". And let's not even consider what our FILTLISTs look like. I guess what I'm going to do is to study the current ACS routines. From that, document what they do, using English. Then take my documentation and code the routine again from scratch. Basically all that I'll copy will be the FILTLISTs. Of course, this is basically useless work due to management's big push to go to a 110% MS-only shop. It will be a "learning experience" for me. Hopefully I'll either s! urvive here long enough to die a natural death, or maybe IBM will do something to make the z once again the premier hardware platform. Me, I'm learning Android and ARM architecture. ARM is somewhat interesting from an instruction perspective. Definitely a polar opposite from the z and CISC.
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