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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:36 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT
> 
> 
> Personally, I would think that addressing the root issue 
> would be a lot
> more effective in the long run. Why not just ask the 
> offending program's
> support person to fix the bug? 

What I sort of wish IBM would do is make an alternate LE library where
the DISPLAY ... UPON SYSOUT is basically an NOOP. Or maybe even an LE
run-time parameter like
PARM='PROGRAMMER_IS_IDIOT_DISABLE_DISPLAY_VERB=YES' with a short form of
PARM='DISPLAY=OFF'

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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
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