In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/18/2006
   at 11:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>WTF SJF? 

Scheduler JCL Facility was introduced in MVS/SP 1.3 to support the
OUTPUT statement. It allowed adding new JCL statements and new
keywords on existing statements.

>I have heard tales that the JCL C/I is FUBAR ("Beyond Ability to 
>Repair"), and development is afraid to replace or significantly 
>modify it. 

I'm not sure that I believe it. certainly the code in the old R/I was
cleaner than, e.g., the Initiator. Take IEFZGST1 and IEFZGST2 -
please!
 
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     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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