On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:16:18 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >>I resorted to using basic XEDIT and generating my updates > >>with SuperC UPDCMS8. > (Why is quoted material appearing double-spaced? Is this a perversion of a markdown filter?)
>As others have pointed out, this is easily remedied by editing the update > Ugh! >deck. And good hygiene means at least viewing the update deck to be sure you >understand all the changes anyway. > Prudence might dictate applying the update to the original and comparing. I've contended with undisciplined co- workers using desktop editors (Notepad?) which didn't number lines and left lines unterminated. I reported the assembly errors to them and let them deal with it. Often the unterminated MEND had swallowed the next MCS command when I concatenated the PTF. On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 09:38:11 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote: > >There is no 73-80 dependency in XEDIT/UPDATE either. Just the last 8 >characters, so it could be 1001-1008 if you need 1000 characters for >your code. > Even if the lines have varying lengths? The last 8 characters of each individual line? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
