"why" -- it's for the reason that Steve Smith mentioned. It's to help you get rid of the things that you should get out in unit test. For things that you should not be writing code for such as "if I get xx0042yy then...".
Truly, you should think of COND(YES) on an obtain of storage as applying for the most part only to "is there enough storage". For that case, it can probably often meet the demanding criteria of Ed's team. <snip> I found this to be the most irritating aspect of working with 64 bit areas. </snip> My initial thought when I read that was "if that's the most irritating thing then you must not do much with 64 bit areas". Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
