In <[email protected]>, on 11/10/2013 at 09:20 AM, John McDowell <[email protected]> said:
>The Scheduler JCL Facility (SJF) is very useful but it is built on >top of the preexisting C/I infrastructure, I am not looking to >usurp SJF but rather the infrastructure it rests upon. >Usurp? IBM added SJF in order to make it easier to add new statements >and new operands on existing statements. How is using it for the >intended purpose a usurpation? You misread what I wrote. I did not say that SJF was a usurpation of what was already there, instead what I said is that I am looking to usurp "the infrastructure it rests upon". In other words my intent would be replace confusing/non-intuitive admixture of positional/keyword/quoted/parenthesized specification of values and provide some new capabilities at the same time :-) I think the promise of SJF has largely (but not entirely) gone unfulfilled, this is unfortunate. But even if SJF were more fully realized basic JCL syntax is best characterized as "user surly" IMHO. The reason I started this thread was to explore ideas about what can be done to make JCL if not exactly "user friendly" at least more approachable :-) John McDowell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
