On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 17:19:22 +0000, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >I just used a Special character to denote the start of a comment. You can have >any character. > Are those "comments", which the Guide says must start with an asterisk in column 1, or "remarks" a term which the Guide uses repeatedly, but never defines.
>> I suspect the convention would be comfortable, even intuitive, to the >> experienced HLASM or JCL programmer, but would require explanation to a >> programmer with a different background. The Guide should be more explicit >> about general syntactic conventions. >The Guide would benefit from greater use of comments and remarks in its >Examples, both to: >o make the operation clearer to the reader, and to make the programmer >familiar with use of comments. > >With limit of 80 bytes it is difficult to have detailed comments as a part of >SYSIN control cards. > JES3 and later JES2 have removed the 80 byte limit many years ago. DFSORT would benefit from taking advantage of this. > ... The application programming guide explains in detail about the control > cards below. >Check these links. > >https://www.ibm.com/docs/es/zos/2.5.0?topic=iriodse-example-1 > Where I see: INCLUDE COND=(5,8,GT,13,8,|,105,4,LE,1000),FORMAT=CSF This could be clarified with remarks(?) such as: INCLUDE COND=( 5,8, # The number in bytes 5 through 12 GT, # is greater than 13,8, # the number in bytes 13 through 20 |, # or: 105,4, # The number in bytes 105 through 108 LE,1000 # is less than or equal to 1000 ),FORMAT=CSF # Indicates all numbers are floating sign. All comfortably within 80 bytes. OK. Far too many remarks. But when instructing a novice it's better to err on the side of too much information than of none at all. >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=rrape-example-1 -- Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
