Our automation system relies heavily on the content of messages and has not failed us in 10 versions of z/OS. We have an automation product that reads the text of messages and enables the execution of tasks, depending on the text and passing extract of text to subroutines. I have never seen a directive against this practice.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > It is my understanding that IBM discourages the use of > message texts as programming interfaces. Can anyone > point me to a clear statement of this in IBM documentation? > > (Notwithstanding that IBM is very reluctant to change > messages lest that disrupt automated operations.) > > Thanks, > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
