On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:25:53 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >2a) any line which starts with //* is totally ignored as if it weren't >there. This means it can be placed >in the midst of a series of continuations. Eg: > > //DD1 DD DISP=SHR, > //* DISPOSITION > // DSN=THIS.FILE > //* THE NAME OF THE DATASET
That works today, doesn't it? > >2b) Embedded comments require a /* to start and */ to end. Comments may >be embedded within comments. This means that every /* must have an >corresponding */. This is to allow commenting-out of information which >itself contains comments. I hope I'm making sense. /* this is /* an >embedded */ comment */. This one breaks existing JCL, unless you mean only after column 2. > >2c) All characters after a double dash, --, are comments until the end >of the logical line and are ignored. Eg: > //DD1 DD DISP=SHR, -- THIS IS A COMMENT Why do you want this one? Anything after the first space following the operands is a comment. > >3) Continuation. > >3a) If the last non-blank, non-comment is a comma, then the next logical >line is a continuation of this line. The first three characters of the >next line must be "// ". The continuation actually starts with the first >non-blank after the third character of the next line. Eg: > //DD1 DD DISP=SHR, -- SPECIFY DISPOSITION HERE > // DSN=THIS.FILE -- THE NAME OF THE DATASET That's how it works today -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
