Shane's point is an important one. In a private email to Bill earlier this evening I confessed that I had (more than once) opened a PDS as a sequential data set using BSAM in order to read a (mangled) directory.
On the occasion I remember best I got the information I needed without [further] damaging the PDS, but I would not/do not think it reasonable to complain to IBM after one got/gets into trouble bending the rules because there was no policeman in place to prevent me from doing so. Would I discourage a novice from doing this sort of thing? Yes, but "Do what I say, not what I do" is not always unreasonable, although it is of course always perceived to be so. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
