On 18 Apr 2008 05:50:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Kenneth E Tomiak ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 'Now'? I fixed that problem in a COBOL program in Jan 2000. Eight years ago. >> Someone has not been keeping up to date with the state of the COBOL >> compilers. Do you expect the system programmer to tell the application >> programmer every change in how COBOL is working or that there is a new >> COBOL compiler and they should look at how it impacts them? I usually share >> the migration documentation with them so they can determine the impact on >> how they code. >> >Yes, but....according to the original poster, the problem did not >surface until they converted to Sysplex, which was a recent event. >That is the 'now' to which I referred. > Given that the problem has been around since VSAM started doing implicit verifies on OPEN when a verify situation existed (well over 20 years ago), I am surprised that the problem hadn't surfaced long before this year.
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