On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:24:24 -0500, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm going to re-engineer our ACS routines. They are a mess. But I'm curious about the "best" way. I've narrowed it down to two techniques. <Snip> "Best" can be very subjective so I won't comment on that aspect. For simplification, just as I would do with REXX, I would also include "SELECT WHEN" in your list of constructs to use. >I really want it to be simple and easy to understand and maintain. > SELECT WHEN can definitely help to do that compared to a bunch of IF/THEN/ELSE statements. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ *** Please note the new URL for Mark's MVS Utilities *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

