On Tuesday, 08/18/2009 at 08:59 EDT, "Frank M. Ramaekers" <framaek...@ailife.com> wrote: > I use to use the 'SP PRT TO userid' to validate a user id. Is there a > better/different way?
The generally-accepted idiom is "LINK <userid>" with no other parameters. There are Things that can cause SPOOL to fail even though you are using a valid user ID. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott