On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 01:55, Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2019-03-06 4:13 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > Indeed, there's always something new to learn. While Glenn is right with > > the more robust example to avoid code injection, the modern appendage > > somewhat closer to what you were doing is is with STRLITERAL IFEMPTY > > I still always have to be reminded of those modern additions! I do use > IFEMPTY and CONDITIONAL when I can remember them. The COUNT solution is > not so much more robust as more general. You could do anything you want > in processing the count--issue one command if it's zero or another if > it's nonzero, etc. There is my purpose: no day without a new pipeline stage. Back then, I started my blog showing off new things you could do with plastic pipes. Much of that was a bit advanced plumbing. If you're on MVS with on hand on your back, it's harder to adopt new things. More recently I started doing a mixed bag of appendages with novice and intermediate examples, hoping to interest folks who have not used CMS Pipelines for 3 decades yet. And LOOKUP is a gem indeed, I will have to do my mini disk allocation pipeline for the user directory again. Sir Rob the Plumber > >
