On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:17:35 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:

>I guess when the utility was developed JCL was way simpler and test cases
>were limited.
>
>After Gil raised the various gotchas, I wrote myself a PUTPDS program with
>a user defined delimiter. Eschewing 2 bytes means I can come up with a very
>random string such as !@#$%^&*  ADD NAME=MEMBER. Not likely to be embedded
>in usual members.
>
>Now adding some bells and whistles. Not that I need it in retirement. Golf
>today.
>
Bravo!

Although I still favor off-the-shelf techniques such as
IEBCOPY and TRANSMIT.

Although those lack the flexibility of editable text
transport containers.

-- 
gil

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