Preamble, preamble, preamble. Wow. Err... EEEK! Eck, yeck, blech. Postamble. Postamble. Postamble.
That paragraph, which you can each fill your own words in for, means "when the man trusts me to do a SYSGEN, then let the techies loose on application programs". Really, guys, I have great respect, and intend no badness to no one, and I was very impressed with the efforts to answer, rather than to shout-down... but... this is not your lawn. Angelo, please don't go to your CICS technical staff and say that some techie told you to use PARM for user-data, so it must be OK. Also, don't try it with user-defined environment variables either. 1) Do you, or anyone in your department, want to be responsible for getting the VAT rate correct, for the correct dates, even for a very simple case? 2) Does your Accounts department want you to be responsible for the same? 3) Do you want to give the Auditors a good laugh? 4) Do you want the VAT Inspector investigating your company as far as the underside of your company's anthropomorphic diaphragm? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
