Can you say IEBUPDTE? and Yes, XEDIT had it all over TSO's EDIT command. But go back before XEDIT and it was not that nice. I've said it before: Maybe I've been doing this too many years. (Can you say Autocoder?)
Rob Weiss z/SWITA and z/Series I/T Security and Privacy Consultant IBM Software Group Sales IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 08/02/2006 10:44:11 PM: > Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: > > > >> cms had "update" command from mid-60s ... which applied an update > >> control file to source, > > > > I'm not sure when it came along, but by VM/SE there was a somewhat > > more sophisticated UPDATE facility[1] with aux files, control files > > and update files. I'd love to see a similar facility integrated with > > ISPF. > > > > [1] Not only could the XEDIT editor process them, but it could > > generate update files to reproduce the effects of an edit > > session. That's one of the CMS facilities I miss the most. > > > CDC 6000 batch source maintenance tools (UPDATE?) even in the late > 1960's had much more elegance than IBM counterparts. User supplied > source statements for the Assembler were constrained to 80-byte card > images (72 columns + sequence), but the assembler actually supported 90 > byte input lines, which allowed library maintenance tools to introduce a > much longer sequence identification which included a modification name > (analogous to a SYSMOD ID) and a sequence number within that > modification. I believe the sequence numbers were generated > automatically as part of the initial storing into the source library or > updating of the source member, and then could be used afterwards to > uniquely refer to a specific statement for future updates. It was > always clear which named modification introduced a statement without > having to resort to manually inserted and possibly incorrect comments. > Statements could be replaced or deleted, but the original statement was > still retained in a disabled state and could be resurrected at a later > time by another modification, or at any time you could choose to undo > modifications and revert to an early source version. I can still > remember my disappointment on discovering the lack of comparable > built-in facilities on MVS in the mid 1970's. > > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
