On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:48:48 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
>On 11/6/2013 11:28 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>> <quote> it works pretty well. </quote>
>>
>> Yeah, once you get past the backwards idea of executing the program before
>> you allocate the datasets. :-)
>
>I don't understand that comment. In a normal batch job, the initiator
>handles allocation, and then invokes the program.
>
I understand he means that the allocation items ("DD") appear in the
code before the invocation item ("EXEC"). That's the least affront to
intuition in JCL; it's declarative, not procedural. You can hardly imagine
how far down on my list of things I'd change about JCL that occurs.
-- gil
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