On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 00:48 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Your problem in this instance is that JCL makes the colossal > design blunder of interpreting metacharacters _after_ > symbol substitution. Rexx, for example, knows better. > > I hate JCL! > > Whenever I want to do anything serious, I keep my JCL as a > here-document in a POSIX shell script. The designers of shell > gave some consideration to what programmers need to do.
Mmmm - I often need to pass (environment/shell) variables through to called programs via the shell; along with globbing to be resolved by the called. Certainly not always intuitive to this little black duck ... Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
