Charles Mills writes <begin extract> DBB LECL will almost certainly not assemble (as John G. was pointing out, a bit obtusely). Should be LRECL </end extract>
Equally, 'DBB' should of course be 'DCB'. My point--serendipitously well illustrated by what you typed--was that, since the OP obviously knows that 'LECL'. should be 'LRECL', there was a strong possibility that his typo was a transcription error, defective in his post but not in his code. In reviewing the language I used to make this point I find no basis for the notion that it is obtuse. (It is at once clear and polite, but perhaps I should add that I am capable of being impolite.) While I am responding, I do not much like your 'definition'/characterization of a DSECT. A DSECT is a portable putative storage template. It describes but neither allocates nor initializes a block of storage. Like other preogramming constructs, a DSECT can be misused. You are of course correct that if pointed "in the weeds" it will yield gibberish and, with luck, a quick ABEND. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
