Re: QSHELL commands (was: Stmf copy with add)

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Doug,

You wrote:
>Personally, I like to use the default of MAXPOS(*NOMAX).  But IBM, in their
>infinite wisdom, sets lower limits on many of their commands.

They do that for a reason.  The reason is that they can insert new keywords
where appropriate without breaking existing code.  If all the keywords were
positional then someone somewhere would code a CL program that way and IBM
would have to put any new keywords at the end to avoid breaking that
program.

Forcing keywords for the less common parameters allows IBM to insert a new
keyword next to a possibly related existing keyword.  (Always presuming that
the designer of the command actually has a clue about why this stuff is done
the way it is.)

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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