... I thought this list was about people helping each other, not experts talking to themselves. ...
Only after some due diligence is done by the poster. I don't know where the line is, but I have seen a lot of 'homework assigment' questions. And, if you know how to allocate a dataset (to cite this example), you should know how to de-allocate it. I admit I get involved in the OT discussions, but I still think we are not here to teach a rookie; rather to help them become better. AFTER THEY COMPLETE THE BASICS. Again, expanding on the example, I have no problem explaining why a dataset won't 'FREE', but I don't think we should explain 'FREE'. BTW, you can 'FREE' either by DDNAME or by DATASET (if it's not part of a concatenation). OR, you can use: ALLOC ... REUSE -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! -- W. Edwards Deming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
