>If IBM is committed to ensuring that the program will works from this point >on for evermore, how can the routines called by the SVC "know" whether or >not the SVC was assembled from programmer code[1] or macro code? Release x+n >cannot change what release x's macro created! What's all this nonsense about >"all bets are off"!?!
If you got it 100% right, you're likely fine. If you got it 1% wrong, then don't make any presumptions. You're surely right that the routines cannot tell. But it remains a fact that the interface is the macro. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

