Hi Tamar,

>In this example, yes, but it was simplified. The outer TRY-CATCH might be
>in a different routine, or wrapped around a large portion of the
>application, or who knows.

yes, but this not change the question.

1. If code is within a outer TRY-CATCH , put TRY-ENDTRY is useless because outer TRY-CATCH catched the error also without TRY-ENDTRY.
2. If code is not within a outer TRY-CATCH , put TRY-ENDTRY fire handling structure error.

Fabio