Which is why we suggested C ALL P'.' ' ' 73 80.
Change All characters to blanks in columns 73 to 80.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:47 PM Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:35:24 -0700, retired mainframer wrote:
>
> >Possibly because
> >   1 - If some lines don't have numbers, the member is technically not
> >numbered.
> >   2 - A member that is not numbered can have real data in 73-80.
> >   3 - Blanking out real data with the unnum command is undesirable.
> >
> >Presumably, if unnum fails for this reason, you would double check before
> >issuing the renum command.
> >
> So it's advised to write a script that renumbers and unnumbers all members
> of a PDS, bypassing any possible warnings?
>
> It's like not being able to turn off "Confirm Deletes" -- replying "Y" becomes
> a reflex and the protection vanishes.
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
>
> >> On 2018-06-25, at 12:07:00, Mike Schwab wrote:
> >>
> >> > Unnum doesn't work if all lines don't have numbers.  So you have to
> >> > renum then unnum.
>
> -- gil
>
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