On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 09:22 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On the z/OS side, consider that OPEN has (yet, after 4 decades) no > way to report an error to the caller other than "just crashing".
Oh, I don't know. Think of ABEND/ESTAE as a sort of crippled throw/catch (crippled in the sense that "catch" pretty much has to be coded in asm). -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

