On 15 Aug 2006 06:44:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I'll second the motion to allow lower case in JCL. In fact, I'd like to >see an option to allow "user friendly" JCL:
While I like the idea, plan on major effort to convert JES exits, IEFUJI and IEFUJV among other things. I would prefer we start looking a command language be it REXX, one of the Unix shells or something else that would allow longer data set names, mixed case, less convoluted syntax etc. Obviously JCL will have to be supported for the next decade but the limitations associated with it are probably so deep in the guts of z/OS that we would bleed if they were relaxed. > >1. For compatibility, there would need to be an installation >configuration option to permit or disallow "user friendly" JCL. > >2. It should allow mixed case JCL keywords and parameters. Of course, >quoted strings would not be folded to upper case. > >3. Positional "keyword" parameters (for example, RLSE) should become >simply "keyword" parameters. > >4. Continuations should be able to start anywhere after column 3. > >5. JCL should not be restricted to columns 1-72 of LRECL=80, but should >support RECFM=F or V and larger LRECL's. The last 8 columns of RECFM=F >and the first 8 columns of RECFM=V should have automatic sequence number >detection and would ignore sequence numbers as appropriate. > >I'm sure that there are many other features that would make JCL even >more user friendly. > >Don Williams >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(919) 966-3968 >UNC Hospitals >Information Services Division >321 Meadowmont Village Circle, 2nd Floor >Chapel Hill, NC 27517 > >"The time is always right to do what is right" -- Martin Luther King, >Jr. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
