On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:08:21 -0600 Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:21:27 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: :>>No. The original design of OS/360 was that all programs were subroutines. :>>A program written to be called as a jobstep task could also be called via :>>LINK or ATTACH from another program. It was never designed for programs to :>>assume that they were jobstep tasks, although IBM may have written code[1] :>>that assumed that. :>I once encountered an IBM program (I forget which) which deliberately :>failed if invoked in a multistep job or not as a jobstep task. Are you sure that it didn't fail because it lost its PPT attributes? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
