The fact that this thread split off from the PARM= thread and then
wrapped back demonstrates something else: JCL itself is an anacronism.
In the Future Work Flow Manager ("FWFM") white paper from about 1980,
SHARE suggested that having different command languages for batch and
TSO (and whatever else might exist then or in the future) was a
problem which needed to be fixed, and that there be some new unified
command language for all environments.
I suggest that command language is REXX. I have written a number of
production batch jobs with basically no JCL and the heavy lifting in
REXX simply because it was completely impossible to do what I needed
via JCL and often trivial to do it in REXX. (In fact, pre-REXX I had
done a few of these in CLIST. Bleah.) Of course, some of these jobs
butted up against the 100 char JCL parm limit...
/Leonard
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