Will the new limit for JCL PARM= will be 110 characters? :-)
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to draw your attention to the z/OS 1.11 announcement letter, > now available here: > > http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS209-242/ENUS209-242.PDF > > There's a lot to like, including the new z/OS Management Facility under > discussion in another thread. However, I am most excited that IEFBR14 is > being enhanced. This is truly historic! > > If you are unfamiliar with IEFBR14, you can read more here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 > > Quite simply, IEFBR14 is a program intended to do nothing. This program > holds the world record, at least unofficially, for highest number of > reported (and corrected) defects per line of code. It started life > (generously) as three lines of code, i.e. just a single instruction. It's > slightly longer now. Here's what the z/OS 1.11 announcement letter says: > > "In z/OS V1.11, when IEFBR14 is used with DD statements to delete a data > set that has been migrated by DFSMShsm, Allocation is now designed to pass > the delete request to DFSMShsm under most circumstances so the data set can > be deleted without first recalling it. This can take significantly less > time and consume fewer system resources than waiting for the data set to be > recalled before being deleted, thereby helping speed batch processing." > > How cool is that! > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
