<snip> I suppose there might be security concerns around knowing what gets fetched? </snip>
It has nothing to do with "knowing" anything. It has to do with the environment in which the code calling the exit runs, and avoiding crippling the system by doing something differently that would likely have horrendous performance characteristcs.. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN