Well, you're right, that's certainly an example of a 21st century value to sequence numbers.
One might counter-argue that in 2013 the difference between distributing a 20-line patch versus an entire 2000-line macro (about 158K before any compression) was not terribly significant. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Skip Robinson Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?) ++MACUPD and ++SRCUPD depend entirely on FB sequence numbers. Without sequence numbers, every macro or source 'update' would have to be delivered as a complete replacement. For better or worse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
