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  3. March 2005

RE: Multiple Reports in One Spooled File

 >> I think GOBACK is equivalent to EXIT PROGRAM, followed by STOP RUN, so
I'm not surprised.

Not quite.  GOBACK means "Do a Stop Run if you are leaving the root program,
otherwise do an Exit Program.  It was added to the language to avoid code
like this:

   Exit Program.
* If Exit Program "dropped through" issue Stop Run
   Stop Run.

Recursion in this case is frankly a waste of effort - this is not a
recursive process.  Besides, recursion doesn't really work properly in OPM
anyway.

Simply prevent the run unit from terminating with one of the methods I
mentioned earlier and everything will work as you want.


Jon Paris

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