Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Welcome back. I've missed you since February.
Many thanks. Was busy with projects which kept me too busy and somewhat sidetracked ... I also missed being on the discussion lists where I can get advice and give assistance where I can.. >That absolutely works, but it's less intuitively legible than (e.g. in Rexx): > say '01'x || '1' || '05'x || 'ABCDE' >(I've wished for similar facility in JCL.) I agreed. If a parameter can contains mixed format(s), it would be very helpful. Same as for output where I want to print out things in numeric, hex, char, hex, etc. all in one row from input. Something like IDCAMS PRINT ... DUMP where one half is hex and other half is char. >What if there's a 30-character key containing only one nonprintable character? Ouch ... in COBOL, you get a S0Cx abend. Hard to find that record out of a few millions records. Been There and Got The T-Shirt. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
