> On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hmmm. To me, that strategy seems appropriate for a report program ("this
> field is not relevant to this type of transaction so print blanks or
> asterisks") but not for a dump program. Isn't a dump -- consider the name --
> supposed to be "here it all is, as it all is, you figure out what is
> relevant"?
> 
> Is not the contents of an "irrelevant" register save area sometimes the very
> clue you need? "Look at that -- it looks like part of one of my error
> diagnostics -- I must be overlaying storage with the message" or "look, R2
> is pointing to my widget table. I must have come through the widget lookup
> routine after all."
> 
> I know, my comment is fundamentally irrelevant. LE's dump program works the
> way it works, and they are not going to change it because of a comment on
> IBM-MAIN, at least not in time to help @Janet.
> 
> Charles

Charles:

Try a SHARE requirement. LE (as usual IMO) is being arrogant , They really need 
to be slapped down a few notches.

Ed

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