It was not a catalog name, just regular dataset name.
Similarly the UNIT=3350 was not about computer museum.
It is JCL course, not "Back to the Future part IV".
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 07.12.2024 o 18:36, Mike Schwab pisze:
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. :-)
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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).
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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.
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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.
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