Sorry about that. The last two paragraphs of my previous post should be There is nothing analogous to the HLASM option alternatives NOGOFF|GOFF available for COBOL 5.1. COBOL source libraries can continue to be PDSs, but COBOL executables must be stored in PDSEs.
This should hold no terrors for anyone. PDSEs can be highly problematic at IPL time: suppoprt for their use is not always available early enough. For COBOL APs they are technically unproblematic. The requirement that PDSEs be used for executables may, of course, pose bureaucratic problems for some large shops, but these problems can be surmounted, and they should anyway have been addressed long ago. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
