He said, as you very well know, that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
IIRC, this command once allocated only one dataset at a time. Someone pointed out that the underlying facility it uses can allocate more than one at a time, that this is advantageous, and that an inference to its being able to do so is a plausible one (on the basis of the behavior of OPEN, CLOSE, etc.). I further suspect that the extension to make it do so was then botched. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
