In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/13/2005
at 04:21 PM, Leonard Woren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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.
The problem is that JCL does some things well that are awkward or
impossible in REXX, e.g., doing an ENQ of all datasets used in the
job.
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