In a recent note, Patrick O'Keefe said: > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:31:18 -0600 > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:35:10 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353 > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >... I would expect them to reflect the > >EXECUTION-time environment and no other. The Conversion and > Interpretation > >systems are completely irrelevant and *should* be "transparent" to my > >application needs. ... > > Huh? You can have your symbolics resolution in your application at > run time. You want the resolution in the JCL to reflect execution time? > That may be weeks after the JCL is processed. I don't pretend to know > what part of JCL processing is done during Conversion and what during > Interpretation, but I am pretty sure neither process is psychic (even > in an ESP environment). They can't know what the symbol values will be > at execution. > Your astonishment is out of place; it was an easy mistake for Peter to make. In most systems the command language is a scripting language, interpreted line-by-line, or at least with deferred evaluation of environmental variables. z/OS is in the minority in using a compiled language as a command language; I dearly wish it were otherwise.
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