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.
>
>
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