Why is Group move better than INITIALIZE verb?

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NiceGuy
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Why is Group move better than INITIALIZE verb?

Post by NiceGuy » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:48 pm

Can someone tell me why the ?INITIALIZE? verb is inefficient? One of my current assignments is to go through all of our programs and replace the ?INITIALIZE? verb with group moves.

Thanks in advance,

NG

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Post by DavidatK » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:52 am

NG,

Sorry I didn't get around to answering your query earlier. Would you please look at the answer I gave ?mainframe5? for his query? If it does not answer yours please come back and I promise I?ll give you what you need,

Dave

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