John, Your so far from impolite. I appreciate intelligence and frankness. I will post my code a snippet a bit later..I know I made mistakes , so I need a another pair of eyes I don't have within the company I work..the black arts of assembler are only practiced by a few ...good men and women...thanks for the option...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On May 25, 2012, at 8:47 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles Mills writes > > <begin extract> > DBB LECL will almost certainly not assemble (as John G. was pointing > out, a bit obtusely). Should be LRECL > </end extract> > > Equally, 'DBB' should of course be 'DCB'. > > My point--serendipitously well illustrated by what you typed--was > that, since the OP obviously knows that 'LECL'. should be 'LRECL', > there was a strong possibility that his typo was a transcription > error, defective in his post but not in his code. In reviewing the > language I used to make this point I find no basis for the notion that > it is obtuse. (It is at once clear and polite, but perhaps I should > add that I am capable of being impolite.) > > While I am responding, I do not much like your > 'definition'/characterization of a DSECT. A DSECT is a portable > putative storage template. It describes but neither allocates nor > initializes a block of storage. > > Like other preogramming constructs, a DSECT can be misused. You are > of course correct that if pointed "in the weeds" it will yield > gibberish and, with luck, a quick ABEND. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
