Perhaps he is referring to IEBUPDTE? I don't know of anyone who maintains code that way, but there might be someone out there who does.
Personally, I have been campaigning against the use of sequence numbers in Cobol programs for years. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:03, John McKown <[email protected]>wrote: > Then explain them to this poor fool. I find them to be a useless > anachronism. And your answers tend to be so short as to be unhelpful. > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. > > On May 3, 2011 8:03 AM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > In <[email protected]>, > on 05/02/2011 > at 09:23 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said: > > >Are you humor impaired? > > Are you a failed comedian? > > > >Or maybe you've just be around the government too long. > Or maybe I just understand the issues better than you. > > > >And, yes, I know about ISPF's "modification level" use of the > >sequence columns. > Suggesting that you don't understand the issues. The use of columns > 79-90 is only a minor part of why sequence numbers are useful. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have ... > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] w... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
