Jon, >> Sorry if I offended anyone. That was not my intent. "NEED TO" was not meant >> to dictate what vendors must do.
I was the one who ..... - It was my understanding (and English is not my native language) of what you posted and my curiosity (but certainly no offence felt here). I also thought maybe there are rules (and it turned out during the late postings there are some but not for this) for z/OS only people'(watch my modified sig-line). -- Martin supporter of the other op-sys, that runs CICS, HLASM, and MQ, and a few others precious supplements of the base op-sys.