On Wed, 7 May 2025 11:11:46 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The default //SYSIN DD * and /* have been documented for half a century. Both >are very convenient as long as your instream data never have a / in column 1. > My question is, is there any way to disable the delimiter so that an instream data set may freely contain any or all of the 65536 possible digraphs in 1-2?
Related: colleagues only slightly older than I habitually ended each JCL file with "//". I never bothered -- it seemed to be two otiose keystrokes, an obsolete habit. I consider the default //SYSIN DD * bad design. Once it may have economized valuable pulpwood. Nowadays, it only conceals coding errors. I once received from a co-worker a REXX file in dented with a blank beginning every line. Worked fine in SYSPROC or SYSEXEC, but failed in OMVS, which didn't recognize a magic number and interpreted it as a shell script. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
