I tried mixing for a while, but I went back to ASM, CNTL, CLIST, LOAD etc. because I still use a lot of TSO commands and with PROFILE PREFIX set correctly I can type SUB D(MYJOB) or TEST T(MYPROG) instead of long versions such as TEST 'YNOTRR1.T.LOAD(MYPROG)'
Roops --- "Mundus sine Caesaribus" On Wed, 27 Aug 2025, 20:03 Schmitt, Michael, < 00001e13e9d4753a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > Really? I think it is a great thing you can do. I mean, I don't use it for > anything in production or the real system, but in three use cases: > > 1. I have a job I use to test COBOL syntax. This job contains the COBOL > source, and runs the standard compile-link-go proc. So, my steps to change > the source, compile, link, run, are just one step: change source, submit. > > 2. I create self-contained utility jobs, where I'm using COBOL rather than > some language that is typically from SYSIN, such as Sort, Easytrieve, or > whatever. Again, the job compiles the COBOL and links it. > > This is not for jobs where I'm writing once and running many. It is more > for ad hoc work where I'm spending a lot of time writing it (and so need > the compile-link-run cycle to be fast, and then only run it once in awhile. > > 3. I create self-contained jobs to send as test cases to IBM to illustrate > a problem. Such as, I needed to prove a Language Environment bug, so I > created a single member that contains 3 assembler programs and a COBOL > program. The job assembles and compiles everything, links, executes. Then > just send that one job to IBM. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 1:29 PM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: Is HLASM efficient WAS: Telum and SpyreWAS: Vector > instruction performance > > While I'm not a big fan of JCL and source in the same member. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on > behalf of Ian Worthington <00000c9b78d54aea-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 2:21 PM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> > Subject: Re: Is HLASM efficient WAS: Telum and SpyreWAS: Vector > instruction performance > > > External Message: Use Caution > > > This, more or less, one of my ISPF EDIT bête noires. I'm not a fan of the > JCL in this PDS, source in that PDS, etc separation of members, preferring > to keep my PDSs function related so I can then rapidly hop from one member > to another when performing a task. The price I pay for this blasphemy is > ISPF constantly doing irritating things with the profile. > > Best wishes / Mejores deseos / Meilleurs vœux > > Ian ... > > On Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 08:01:20 PM GMT+2, Paul Gilmartin < > 00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > > On 8/27/25 07:00, Phil Smith III wrote: > > I'm missing something--what's wrong with the comments being mixed case? > Other than them getting folded to uppercase, maybe, when you make changes? > But how is that such a problem? > > ... > An IBM-MAIN reader complained that (my) mixed comments > changed (his) ISPF setting to CAPS OFF and he had > to issue a command to change it back to ON! > > -- > gil > > > > > >
