In <[email protected]>,
on 07/22/2011
at 12:32 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
> This is a bit different from the other discussion about JCL. I don't
>want to replace it. Good heavens! Imagine trying to develop something
>like CA-11 restart for a UNIX shell script. But I do wonder if there
>are some enhancements that other would like. I have a few myself that
>I'll share.
All of those sound useful. Why not develop business cases and submit
requirements?
> 2) Make a &SYSUIDL
It might be better to provide instead a lower-case function in SET, or
perhpas both upper-case and lower-case functions.
> 4) Be able to create missing subdirectories in JCL. And, likewise,
>use DELETE in DIRDISP to remove an empty subdirectory.
Nested? Potentially dangerous. Perhaps separate DELETE and DELETER
options?
>(where would STDERR go? /dev/null? joblog? z/OS SYSLOG?)
Perhaps some additional syntax for defining stderr, e.g., "2>path",
"2>&1"?
> 6) Something vaguel akin to GDG-ALL processing, but for UNIX files.
>Use of the shell "wild card" would mean "all files which match the
>pattern".
Nested? Perhaps a RECURSE|NORECURSE flag?
> 7) An option to read an ASCII encoded UNIX file,
ITYM non-EBCDIC, but why not make it general? There are certainly
situations where it is desirable to translate from one EBCDIC code
page to another.
>And perhaps even be able to specify the CCSIDs involved.
I would consider it useless without that.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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