My favorite layout is this: //ddname DD DISP=xxx, // DSN=dsname
This allows maximum flexibility in editing or otherwise altering JCL text. On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 10:13 AM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a fan of DSN last, or at least last on a line, because it is the one > thing that seems to change the most, or change when you clone a job, and > when it changes, the length of the operand often changes. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Spiegel > Sent: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 7:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBM JCL Expert preview in today's announcement letter > > Hi Bob, > I learned JCL in the mid '70s (45 years ago). > Placing DISP first makes the JCL line up a lot more than placing DSN first. > Besides not needing DCB, DSORG is usually useless as well. > > -- Skip Robinson 323-715-0595 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
