>I would much favor a convention that reports the truncation as an error. >Then it's up to the caller to handle or ignore it.
I don't disagree with your preference, but you are talking about changing thousands or millions of lines of code, and likely creating significant incompatibilities. Ain't gonna happen. The reality is that the choices lie between - changing nothing and - implementing what many customers (whether they voice their opinions on IBM-Main or not) have asked us for, namely to give them the "rope" and leave it to them to avoid doing something that "hurts". And if a customer does not want to take advantage of this functionality, nothing prevents them from avoiding it. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
