Steve, That's exactly my take on the position. There are times when an application programmer needs to do something that requires a change to the options. The onus is on the AP to understand the option he is changing.
Kind Regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: 14 December 2006 13:23 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL compiler options JCL PARM. Everybody wants to be king [or queen]. But there are always cases where the supplied defaults are not the right values for a situation. My approach would be: 1) establish your standards and install the compiler with those values as the defaults; 2) make sure everyone is aware of the standard default values, what they mean and why they are in place; 3) allow applications programmers to override default values when they see a need. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. http://www.trainersfriend.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
