On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com>wrote: ..snip
> To single out this one > class of error as inexcusable or bad programming is absurd. > > That's my opinion. > > ..snip It's absurd to RTFM before you code a macro? Any ISV product that has this problem would make me wonder about what other simple rules were ignored or what other data areas were used that should not have been, etc. It's not absurd to expect a product to be written to IBM standards. Yes, all code will have "bugs", that a guarantee, but ones that were caused by not reading about a macro before coding it or using a data area that IBM has clearly marked as "reserved" etc are inexcusable. As I've said, I understand the need for IBM's "fix" since there is a lot of home grown assembler applications that maybe were written without complete understanding of what was being used, but an ISV product that a company charges companies for, should follow the book. Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
