>this *seems* to be a change behavior of a product. What "change in behavior" are you referring to? Obviously when PDSE processing was introduced, PDSE processing itself was a "change in behavior" as almost all new function is. PDSE processing has always done this validation and likely always will.
It is unlikely anyone is going to both explicitly documenting that "you should not reformat data on your own, bypassing the system services that are provided to do that". Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
