>Now all the vendors including IBM change their "huge" number of > programs by *deleting* all of their dsname checking code, replacing it > with a simple call to the system subroutine. Duh, this is the way it > should have been done from day 0.
Yes! But! Can you say testing? Can you identify all the places in MVS that would have to be changed? What about compatibility while IBM and ISV's 'get their act together"? It IS NOT trivial. Complex code is tested! The trivial takes longer! - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
