>What a stupid necessity that programmers have to code BLOCK CONTAINS 0 !
What a stupid necessity that REXX programmers have to code: PARSE (UPPER) ARG var1 var2 ... What a stupid necessity to have to code extra volumes in JCL/IDCAMS (or in your ACS) routines. What a stupid necessity that ... (well, you get the picture). There are a lot of warts (still) in z/OS. Some are trivial, some are complex, and some are not truly worth the effort to address. But, z/OS is the most robust OS out there, so I'm willing to live with some of its quirks. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

