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
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