>To have to go through the aggravation of getting 24 bit storage in 2006 is one minor symptom for the mainframe not have good long term prospects.
You're joking right? We're talking about a minor and pretty insignificant piece of coding to basically maintain downward compatibility with code that is several decades old. It is only of concern for Assembler language programmers who aren't exactly the most abundant element in I/T. So, why should this play into the mainframe's "long-term prospects"? Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
