On 12/17/2023 4:59 AM, Peter Relson wrote:
I'd make it "almost always".
The case that comes up occasionally, and is a reason that the default is not
PLISTVER=MAX, is when someone has embedded the list form in a structure (not at the end)
so that if the size changed, fields beyond this structure would have changed offsets and
if you didn't recompile everything appropriate things would break. That potential
incompatibility drives the default. And, yes, the default has the downside that if your
list form "gets it wrong", things don't work.
Compatibility wins in this case.
Good point, Peter.
I assume it goes without saying that if a DSECT is changed incompatibly
-- even when it occurs by "surprise" due to a change in an IBM macro --
all parts using it must be recompiled...
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