On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 07:27:06 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >I will chime in with my _opinion_ that now is the time to start using a >STG to an AD field. It is a cheap way to "future proof" your program for >when IBM finally allows RMODE(64). Unless, like someone I knew back in the > Amen. And all new control blocks should use 64-bit addresses.
>1970's who didn't want to calculate leap years at run time. So she had a >hard coded table in her program. It went up to her planned retirement date. > Did she then use a binary search, or linear? And in the mid 1980's I was unable to persuade my design team to allow 4 digits for year. Their refutation was that we'd be unable to populate such a field because IBM APIs we needed to use supplied only 2 then. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
