On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:49:15 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Many programmers feel that even if IBM were to choose one of the >alternatives above, they would benefit; it would be right for them. >Those to whom the facility would be no benefit would be not be harmed >by it if it were provided: they could continue to use batch JCL with >no system symbol references as they do today. > As has been discussed *many* times before... if you really want it, you can implement it for your shop with an IEFUJV exit. So everyone can stop complaining and run a 2 minute asm/lnk job, issue a couple of operator commands (or IPL) and get system symbols from a batch job along with all the caveats that have been discussed to death. Search the archives! Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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

