I suspect that Paul Gilmartin knew that these labels had to begin with an [extended]alphabetic; but since the language of the manual says only that they must be alphanumeric he was well within his rights as a controversialist in suggesting that an all-numerics, x'Fd', string should equally be usable.
Recall that he hates JCL in assessing his contentions. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
