It's dangerous to let me read reference manuals. In:
Title: z/OS V1R13.0 MVS JCL Reference
Document Number: SA22-7597-16
I read:
18.1.2 Name Field
...
The name is 1 through 8 alphanumeric or national ($, #, @) characters.
The first character must be alphabetic or national ($, #, @).
...
The name may be preceded by up to 8 alphanumeric or national characters,
and then separated by a period.
So apparently I can code:
//12345678.WOMBAT INCLUDE FRED No examples given!
What's the 8-character prefix used for? Now that I look, it's allowed on
several other statements, such as EXEC and IF, but not JOB. All their
descriptions mention something it doesn't do, but don't say what it does.
-- gil
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