Jon, Is there a way to keep the type checking on the required parameters and also allow the trailing parameters to not be specified?
The type checking is extremely useful to my customers and I'd hate to lose it completely. I'd prefer some syntax where I can say 99(char (*) optional, char (*) optional, Fixed Bin(31) optional) or some variation that keeps both the type checking and the number of parameters checking. I can live with losing the type checking on the optional parameters, as long as I can keep the type checking on the required parameters. Janet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN