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.
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