I saw that just today and was astounded! Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 4:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: JCL EXEC name field? In the JCL Ref.: Chapter 16. EXEC statement ... Name field ... • The stepname may be preceded by up to 8 alphanumeric or national characters and then separated by a period. If the stepname is coded in this way, the characters up to and including the period are ignored. WTF? A way of coding a very short comment? Is "00000000." OK? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
