But IBM *did* create a "cross-platform" unified "procedure language" specification.
See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/E04A2A01/CCONTENT S Oh, well, We all know what happened to SAA, don't we? <G> "Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > The fact that this thread split off from the PARM= thread and then > > wrapped back demonstrates something else: JCL itself is an anacronism. > > Allelujah! You betcha. > > > <snip> SHARE suggested that <snip> there be some new unified > > command language for all environments. I suggest that command > > language is REXX. > > Perhaps. I certainly would not mind Rexx as one of the menu of > choices, but I can see good cause for others as well... Java, > Perl, C or something like it, or even (blush) VB. IMO anything > would be a huge improvement over JCL. As an ISV I still have the > unrivalled joy of having to coerce JCL into doing things it was > never really intended for and which are essentially trivial on > every other platform. > <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
