On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:06:39 -0800, Jon Perryman wrote: >JCL not having loop capabilities has nothing to do with rewinding card readers. > *I* believe he was being facetious.
>It has to do with variable substitution occurring as interpretation time. How >would you get out of a loop except by using the CC? �Except in extreme cases, >would running the same program multiple times without a JCL change really do >something useful. > Surely an extension to JCL to support looping would include test conditions (perhaps on values of JCL symbols) other than CC. >As for complaining about JCL EXEC statement being first is unnatural, I have >to laugh. > Please laugh. I think a couple of us were engaging in hyperbole; even as when I called "IEBGENER" "intuitive". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
