Years ago I suggested the need for an ACOPY statement that would only be processed if conditional assembly did not bypass it. But I never created a Share requirement or RFE.
Keith Sent from an iPhone > On Mar 8, 2019, at 12:37, Paul Gilmartin > <00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > >> On 2019-03-08, at 10:06:12, Jonathan Scott wrote: >> >> When AINSERT was invented, about 20 years ago, the HLASM team >> failed to anticipate some of the ingenious ways in which it >> might be used, especially inserting COPY statements ... >> > The need to AINSERT COPY statements is a relic of a painfully > resource-constrained predecessor which required that AIF and > COPY be performed in separate passes. Designers faced the > difficult choice of which to do first. They chose to do COPY > first, prohibiting the obvious use of AIF to bypass copy in > order to support AIF in copybook members. A better design > would provide a conditional COPY. > > -- gil
