You're missing the point. Those utilities are designed to be run in z/OS
UNIX processes not as batch jobs. There are some benefits to that such
as being able to programmatically recovery from errors such as x37
abends. I don't particularly like those utilities. At Rocket we have
much better Python tooling
to dynamically allocate data sets and invoke programs. But IBM has
ported Python now so that's strategic.
On 18/08/2021 11:59 am, kekronbekron wrote:
Objectively, this has got to be madness.
Just look at the JCL that's being shoved into a horrid, horrid Python program.
~200 lines to replace 18 lines of JCL.
Oh.. and that's leaving aside the condescending tone about 'the old mainframer'.
Whether a person wants to learn something or not (therefore choosing their
path) is up to them.
They don't need to be harassed/shamed about it.
Just because there were some people on mainframe forums consistently harassing everyone
with "check with your site's system programmer / RTFM / etc.", it doesn't mean
the woke folk need to return the favour by being passive aggressive or insulting senior
sysprogs for not wearing neon shorts or whatever.
If this is being paraded as simplification, now the mainframe is truly doomed.
https://medium.com/theropod/the-journey-from-jcl-to-python-so-easy-even-an-old-mainframer-can-do-it-f088cc49366a
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