> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Wednesday April 12 2006 13:27 > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/11/2006 > at 07:52 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Its been ages but I do remember a bug that was a PITA in COPY that > >screwed up the copy if the output dataset contained sequence numbers > >that weren't 8 positions, but I could be wrong its been ages. > > That sounds painfully familiar. I'd bet that you're not wrong.
Oh, yeah. VSBASIC. Used VB/255 with sequence numbers in cols 1-5. If you forgot to specify the right parameters on the COPY command, oy. Thank you for bringing back 26 year-old nightmares from college. Later, Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
