On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:43:24 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Many moons ago, when I was a trainee programmer I asked my senior >programmer why IBM couldn't just get rid of JCL. He laughed. I was serious, >still am 45 years later. > How do you solve the ENQ deadlock problem? Telephone the sysop and ask that the other guy be cancelled. You need a language that performs multiple ENQs en masse. Your design is graded C- if the programmer needs to mention any DSN more than once. It's been a while since JOL has been touted here as an alternative. Perhaps Clement Clarke is no longer a contributor. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN