Don, That's a good idea ..I used SAVE but with a minor modification ...I found and borrowed *grin*
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Don Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that improvement rarely comes without disruption... > > I think IBM could provide a new and improved SAVEX macro. Customers would be > able to choose if and when they want to use the new interface. > IBM could recommend deprecating use of the old SAVE macro. This would not > prevent or might imply that IBM intends to discontinue the SAVE macro at > some future date. > > Of course, there are customers like me, who rarely used IBM's SAVE macro, > because they wrote their own. > > Don > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of John Eells >> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:18 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: SAVE macro >> >> Joel C. Ewing wrote: >> <snip> >>> I would contend that the length of time a behavior has been in place >>> doesn't really count if the bad consequences of that behavior have only >>> recently been revealed. >> <snip> >> >> The problem with changing really old behaviors like this one is that >> people are often relying on them whether they know it or not. There is >> some disruption to leaving them as-is, and some disruption to changing >> things so they are more intuitive or work better in some way not >> expected to be visible. Neither is easy to quantify in advance, but >> historically we have sometimes guessed spectacularly wrong when favoring >> the latter. >> >> This makes us terribly gunshy and reluctant to change long-stable >> interfaces even if we would design them differently were we able to go >> back in time and change them. The case for doing so must be very >> strong. Creating a new interface that behaves as we would wish is far >> safer. >> >> -- >> John Eells >> z/OS Technical Marketing >> IBM Poughkeepsie >> [email protected] >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
