On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:05:33 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>> (In case you have some sort of irrational attachment to FB.)
>
>I have an irrational attachment to providing library concatenations that will 
>work. Concatenating LRECL 80 and LRECL 255 REXX libraries will not work.
>
>Are you proposing that the installation convert the IBM libraries to FB with a 
>larger LRECL? If so, how is that better than converting them to VB?
> 
That was supposed to be sarcasm, directed against the view that "FB 80 was
good enough for our grandfathers, it should be good enough for us.  VB was
provided only to economize on storage and that's no longer a concern."

o z/OS supports concatenation of FB libraries and UNIX directories.

o z/OS supports concatenation of VB libraries and (the same) UNIX directories.

o Why not add the third side and complete the triangle?

-- gil

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