>What difference would it make if they occur in a PROC? They are >hardly exceptions since they occur regularly (consider SMP/E and >utilities).
The thought was that PROCs are written and tested once but used many times. >Why would you encourage newcomers to code a useless parameter under >those circumstances? I've been teaching JCL for years and from experience I can tell that this is one of the frequent troubles they have. I always told them that (in my opinion, of course) DSN= and DISP= belong together. (As you may recognize, the temp work data set don't belong to this category). Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse - Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
