VSE JCL. First time I had to use it...Well all the DLBLS before the EXEC. Actually more logical.
The O/S? We could run a production CICS region on a 1 MIP machine. That's tight. (and a Meg of main). On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 11:29 AM Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: > If there are embedded ./ IEBUPDTE in the JCL, I write a .# ADD card as > the header and then use my PUTPDS REXX code. > > The odds of a .# ADD appearing I guesstimate as nil. > > Yes, it's annoying but really, who cares? > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:37 AM Paul Gilmartin < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 19:47:38 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >> >> >JES3 is not retarded. >> > >> I may have judged hastily from such as that the OUTPUT JCL statement >> came to JES2 before JES3. You could pay extra to not get the feature. >> >> >JES3 has this: >> >//*DATASET parameters..... >> > >> >//*ENDDATASET >> > >> Those look like comments. I guess it provides a sort of compatibility >> in that JES2 will ignore them. At the cost of making it harder to >> detect and report typos. >> >> Can the delimiter be changed to allow such lines within instream data? >> >> >> >This is what the z/OS MVS JCL REF has for the parameters: >> > ... >> >//*DATASET DDNAME=ddname[,parameter]... >> >> >This allows one to put that data in-stream, define what DD will >> >be using it..... And then the JOB Step that gets it, the data is >> >encapsulated better than JES2 does it. >> > >> I see little use in the feature. But if I don't like it, or dln't >> understand it, I don't have to use it. >> >> >So I think this can handle the problem of "IEBUPDTE". >> > >> No. The problem is not in JES[23], but in IEBUPDTE, which >> has nothing like a DLM= parm which would allow data lines >> resembling IEBU{DtE commands to appear instream. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> gil >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > -- > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
