In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/30/2008
at 06:37 PM, Frank Swarbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>z/OS certainly does have many nice things about it. But I am also
>running it to several "gotcha" type things.
Some of your issues have been discussed here before. You might want to
check the archives. Also, you might want to submit requirements to IBM for
the things that are important to your shop.
>1) Symbolic parameter support is better on VSE. In VSE you can set a
>parm and then programatically query it. In z/OS the parms are resolved
>to their actual values during JCL resolution (or whatever it's called)
>so it doesn't even really exist at the time the program executes.
The data exist, but it takes more work than it's worth to dig them out.
>You can't check the value of a symbolic parameter
>(I'm guessing since, as I stated above, the symbolic parm
>has already been resolved and doesn't really exist as a parm by then).
That's not the reason. The reason is that IF is piggybacked on the old
COND support instead of being general purpose.
>3) No JCL GOTO!
You can get similar functionality with RESTART.
>4) I'm iffy about the lack of "system standard labels" and "partition
>standard labels".
I hate those. You get similar functionality in a cleaner form with the
catalog. You can also INCLUDE a member that has DD statements.
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