Perhaps this is common, I don't know, but I usually start with something that works, then, as I progress and learn I take out the meaningless stuff.
When I started, how many JCL decks I copied only changing the name of my program and DD names. What a waste, but that is what we did there in that small group, at that time. With very little or no training. (A state job. ) So, most surely the person I copied /*EOF from, had a good idea why he put it there. Why are those binder parms there? I don't know, really. Should they be something different? Queries like these make me go to the docs and try to understand things better. Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 7:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ASM Program to copy a file The /*EOF is useless and meaningless Why are you using RENT, REUS, REFR as binder parms? Your program is not reentrant nor refreshable; guess it might be reusable, but that's usually reserved for subroutines.
