On 23 May 2009 12:32:09 -0700, [email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) wrote:
>You seem to be agreeing with Steve Thompson that "In the MVS world, we >are not device dependant," only insofar as there is only one type of >device. A weak assertion indeed. Would you be willing to go so far >as to side with me and say that we fundamentally disagree with Mr. >Thompson? The CoBOL should be more independent than JCL. There is no reason that CoBOL should care about blocksize, that isn't its function. Whatever we code in the CONFIGURATION SECTION along with FD clauses such as BLOCKSIZE & RECORDING MODE should be overridable in the JCL or REXX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
