One thing I've been taught since I was in school 30+ years ago. Do not use NOT logic. COND goes against everything I've worked at my entire career.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[email protected]>wrote: > LOL. I've been writing JCL for 25 years and I still cannot get the COND > right. > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] > Sent: 20 January 2011 02:45 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: If Else JCL question > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:13:03 -0800, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote: > > >suppose I'm old school, never saw a need to code IF-THEN-ELSE in JCL, only > use cond code checking and never have any issues with step execution or job > flow. > >the only cond code testing I ever do when writing procs is, "if it's true, > it's through", meaning the step/job won't execute if the COND is true. > > > >I guess IBM added all that IF-THEN-ELSE stuff because too many coders > never learned that lesson. > > > http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/postgres.html > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
