Edward Jaffe wrote: <begin snippet> I wasn't clear. We weren't burned because the CALLRKY= keyword has no vowels. We were burned by the unexpected fact that the STORAGE OBTAIN service assigns key zero (by default) to storage acquired from key-specifiable subpools, thus requiring explicit specification of CALLRKY=YES in nearly every case. </end snippet> In such circumstances a usually innocuous framing macro can be used, as in | macro | STORAGE@ &CALLRKY=YES, . . . | . . . | STORAGE CALLRKY=&CALLRKY, . . . | . . . | mend
to provide oneself with more congenial defaults without depriving someone else of the freedom to code something like | STORAGE@ CALLRKY=NO, . . . John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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