On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:39:42 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
>>
>> I hope this makes sense...
>
>It does, but the closest you'll come to that is to put a flower
>box (why tombstone?) as comments preceding the SYSIN (using //*
>comments), or adding a dummy member:
>
>./ ADD NAME=$$DOC
>.....any number of comments statements
>./ ADD ..... your original SYSIN stream
>
In JCL, I sometimes do:
//COMMENTS DD *
... to avoid the lexical ugliness of JCL comments.
It's a PITA to format and edit flower boxes.
Every language should support:
o Comments
o No-Ops
Why? Because ultimately some programmer will imagine a use for
them, and want them.
BTW, is there a comment construct in z/OS operator commands?
-- gil
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