> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Ed Gould > Skickat: den 12 november 2007 22:19 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... > > > > > The ground problem with COPY's is that they often have the > requirement > > of standards and "one source at one place". And if You - when You > > have > > a big organisation and want consistency in developement - are using > > meta database products as Datamanager etc, You definitely don't have > > the option of changing the COPY ! > > > > The whole point of using an option like COPY REPLACE is to make > > temporary/local changes of a permanent source. Which means > it should > > be versatile and flexible. Doing a rigid and limited solution for > > the need is to missing the point completely. > > > > Thomas, I know (and you realize this as well) that what I suggested > is a play around to see if the work around worked as advertised. If > it does work then go through change control (like everyone else). > > Ed >
Hm. I think there is some missunderstanding here. If it's from Your or my side I'm not sure. But AFAICS there is no possibility of change of either the original COPY or *what* COPY we could use in our programs. (It's only the owner of the copy that can/are allowed to do the change, and it is not in his interest (rightfully so) to do a change in the way we need. But it is certainly in both our (the local project) interest and the interest in our organisation as a whole that we have the possibility to use the original COPY with a temporary change in our programs. It could be of interest to note that the programs we are talking about is output from a source code conversion project. And that the availability of the applications in case is *VERY* important. That means that any disturbance of the production is very unkindly looked upon... Unfortunately I don't think it's proper of me to go into deeper detail. Thomas _____________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist IT Utveckling Swedbank AB (Publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
