> -----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- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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