Gregory, I hesitate responding to your post - its mass might otherwise tend to kill this thread, which IMO would be a good thing :-)
I agree with most of what you've written. IBM needs to transition from worrying about protecting z/OS source code to worrying that nobody will want to see it. I have a different view of Peter Relson's posts - I think that he is only trying to explain which parts of control blocks are meant to be interfaces and which are not. This distinction has no analog in modern operating systems, where interfaces are expressed *entirely* by APIs and service routines, and not by skipping through PSA->ASCB->etc.etc. In any case, I appreciate Mr. Relson's (and other IBMers) contributions to IBM-MAIN, even if I don't always like what they say. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies PS> A sore point with me is always "submit a requirement", but that's another topic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
