On 12/5/2013 4:44 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote:
Thanks for the link. This is more in line with my type of writing than the current IF macros. They might be something I can really use.
I looked at PL/j a while back (under z/VM 5.3 I think) after Rob told me about it at a SHARE conference. Its SPMs are conceptually very similar to HLASM's and PL/j comes with a lot of other niceties like entry/exit macros, save areas management macros, bit twiddling macros, and even a code formatter written in z/VM REXX. For advocates of structured programming, any SPM set is better than none. PL/j is a nice "language" and, best of all, the price is right for existing z/VM users! :-) FYI the FLOWASM source and library exits -- which support z/OS, z/VM and z/VSE -- will do their "magic" with any structured programming macro set and even with non-structured programming models that depend on source code indentation heuristics. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
