> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing
>
> [ snip ] I guess the logical
> corollary of CM expecting it to be reasonable to raise an IBM PMR to
> eliminate errors caused by user misuse of JCL DD or program DCB
> parameters would be to expect IBM to also fix all compilers to take
any
> program that was sytactically correct but semantically inappropriate
for
> the incoming data fields, to magically determine what the programmer
> really intended, and change the program to modify the incoming data so
> the program would run without errors. . . .
IOW, to perfect the DWIM macro? :-)
-jc-
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