On Jan 14, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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IEBGENER's approach of only allowing matching parameters is
safest ???
Corruptions are very bad.
Shouldn't be utilities' responsibility; should be right in
OPEN -- Sx13 if someone tries to change attributes when
opening for WRITE or UPDATE. What, I hear you say, "If it
ABENDed, the recovery above wouldn't have worked!" No,
but it wouldn't have been possible to break it in the
first place.
Gil,
That is a problem which IBM should have fixed early on but I think
they kept it this way for compatibility reasons. Don't rant or rave
IBM has done other such items for compatibility treason. That is why
for the most part a program assembled 40 years ago still works today
(99 percent of the time). Good or bad (you pick the reason).
Ed
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