DSN=HLQ is the default catalog name. I've seen that once. Certainly makes reorging user catalogs easy.
On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 9:04 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes. As well as NOLIMIT (equiv of 1440). > And it is still marked as "modern" in IBM course materials. :-) > Not to mention UNIT=3350 or single qualifier dataset names. > > That's why I definitely prefer to use my own course materials. > Fun fact: My JCL course it is probably one of few and the most popular > "pirated" (illegally copied) material about mainframes in Poland. :-) > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > W dniu 06.12.2024 o 17:31, Mike Schwab pisze: > > JCL //name IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF is from the mid 1990s. > > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:26 AM Radoslaw Skorupka > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Some colleagues of mine are sometimes angry for me, because when I > >> "modernize" some system things I tell them how old the "new feature" is. > >> Sometimes it is 20 or 30 years. :-) > >> And I have found that I use many "recently" clauses in my JCL course > >> guide, which is over 20 years old (with updates covering z/OS 3.1). > >> > >> -- > >> Radoslaw Skorupka > >> Lodz, Poland > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> W dniu 06.12.2024 o 16:19, Bob Bridges pisze: > >>> I'm chuckling over "recently (a few decades)". I, too, am at the age > >>> where > >>> I say "recently" and mean something like that. My grandchildren won't > >>> understand that for quite a while yet. > >>> > >>> I suppose it will go on forever. When I'm 10 000 years old, I'll think > >>> "recently" is any time in the previous millennium. > >>> > >>> --- > >>> Bob Bridges,[email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > >>> > >>> /* Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their > >>> disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites....Society cannot > >>> exist unless a controling power upon will and appetite be placed > >>> somewhere, > >>> and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is > >>> ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate > >>> minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. -Edmund Burke, > >>> 1791 */ > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]> On Behalf Of > >>> billogden > >>> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2024 09:17 > >>> > >>> Being an old, old, old assembly programmer, I still write the actual code > >>> in > >>> upper case. However, more recently (a few decades perhaps) I started using > >>> mixed case for comments. Is it "needed"? Perhaps not, but I think it makes > >>> the comments more readable -- and that can be important. > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
