In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/15/2006
at 09:18 PM, Clark F Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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.
The deeply buried limitations of JCL are not in things like case and
record length, they are in things like field sizes. Handling long
record, RECFM=VB and mixed case would be a piece pf cake; allowing,
e.g., DSN longer than 44 bytes would be a nightmare.
--
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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