I agree will Gil. I know it is likely too late to get it changed, but I disagree that being ISPF "compatible" is desirable. ISPF edit was designed for program coding. And IBM programming languages normally put sequence numbers in those columns. So it made sense for a programming editor to maintain them.
Personally to use the PARMDD, I would standardize on using VB data sets to avoid any problems with sequence numbers and required trailing blanks. This still leaves a problem because ISPF Mike's to eliminate trailing blanks. The obvious answer is to use only UNIX files and the vi editor to maintain them. <grin/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
