In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/10/2006
at 07:23 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But my base complaint is with the original and persisting design of
>JCL, which was created without file tailoring in mind. Yes, file
>tailoring existed in those days
Not even close. Manual editing of a card deck is not the FIle
Tailoring service.
>even in the rudimentary form of
>inserting in or removing from a deck of punched cards one card
>containing a single option without the need to add or remove a comma
>from the preceding line.
That's problematical in general, and always has been.
>This technique was well enough known to FORTRAN
There are analogous problems if you try editing a FORTRAN program by
removing one card.
>o Provide explicit assertion of default values for all
> keyword options, such as "TYPRUN=NORMAL", or even
> simply "TYPRUN=".
That's in there.
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