Dave, I wouldn't restrict its use to just PARMLIB. I would suggest that PROCLIB might have some use, too, though maybe not as much.
The bigger usage, to me at least, is with SYSLIBs in general. A single specification for a COBOL compile SYSLIB - or better yet, a series of commonly-maintained specifications for the various flavors within anyone's business - would work wonders to simplify procedures. I'd use it in a heartbeat with my assemblies and probably my linkedits. The real trick will be to get software vendors to buy into the change, especially if the subsystem is written by/for the CBTTAPE community. Some of the better vendors will, no doubt, support it. Others probably not. Wider usage may push them into supporting it. (By "support" I mean allowing for its usage within their products.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
