On Sat, 3 May 2014 23:09:01 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2014-05-02, at 12:04, Jousma, David wrote:
>
>> As for your question, my suggestion is to instead of using IEBUPDTE 
>> statements, is to copy the entire source program, and make a SMPE 
>Replacing an elegantly automated process with a crude and
>tedious manual one.  Sigh.
>

>An alternative to IEBUPDTE is "patch", supplied by z/OS,
>which does not require sequence numbers.  Patch is much
>improved if you have "diff3", not supplied by z/OS, but
>readily available elsewhere.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I ending up using TSO EDIT in a batch job.  A 
fairly easy conversion from the IEBUPDTE control statements, though I 
understand some of the pitfalls with this solution.

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