> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > > In <398110.13853...@web54604.mail.re2.yahoo.com>, on 02/04/2010 > at 03:54 PM, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> said: > > >Then I got back an answer that surprised me something to the effect that > >the documentation wasn't right. > > Why should that surprise you? Sometimes the manual really was wrong. > sometimes the software was BAD. Both are common. > > What bothers me is when the *vendor* refers me to examples, and when they > don't work says "Well, they're only examples."
Like IBM formerly did here? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1D910/15.0 The "Note:" on this page wasn't there pre-1990, when I tried the sample. :-) -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
