>Yah. >It should be done by the access method; the application should be oblivious to >the entire blocking process.
We have 45 years of baggage. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Most people/shops have templates with these things already specified. Copy, and move on. If BLOCK CONTAINS is an issue, you don't have the weight of the world on your shoulders. I don't mean to sound deprecating, but there are more important issues. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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