On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:28:08 -0400, Bonno, Tuco <[email protected]> wrote:
>THANK YOU. this example [infra] of bpxbatch works very well in terms of solving my original problem/issue. >but it's at the expense of making it much more complicated (imo) to process long complicated commands that go across 3 or 4 lines of input. w/ IKJEFT01, a continuation character at the end of each line ( + ) is sufficient; w/ BPXBATCH, you've got to do the >" // SET PARM01= ........ " "// SET PARM02= .... " etc etc etc routine, which, to me, is much more onerous than having the output in two entities in sdsf. > >The Lord giveth, and Lord taketh away . > >Thanks to all who responded . > > I have abandoned all of the UNIX batch procedures that IBM has come up with and use DTLSPAWN from Dovetailed Technologies. It is much, much better in my opinion. It is 100% gratis (free-as-in-beer). http://dovetail.com/products/dtlspawn.html -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

