Really? What kind of "business requirement" is behind that? In any case, I could only vote "who cares?"
I am sure that there are plenty of potential objections, but it seems to me that HLASM, Binder, and compilers should just drop their individual parm DD support, and have them all just go with PARMDD. I don't see that PARMDD is cumbersome, certainly no more than keeping up with multiple ways to accomplish it. sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN