On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 05:47:51 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > >It was internal code developed by one of our systems programmers. It worked >but sometimes broke. > Or, perhaps, "It was broken but sometimes worked."
I had a co-worker who had previously worked for an ISV which he lauded for supporting instream data in PROCs well before IBN did so. "Does it provide SYMBOLS in SYSIN? That would be particularlu useful in PROCs?" "No." IBM appears to substitute during execution. I had envisioned substitution during conversion. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN