On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:03:02 -0500, wrote:
>I'm not sure why you'd think it may have problems punching/printing PDS
>members that happen to contain JCL which happens to contain IEBPTPCH commands.
>It's all just data to IEBPTPCH.
>
OK. I tried it. Members appear to be separated by lines of the form "MEMBER
NAME %%%%%%%%".
(Is this documented?) What happens if such a line appears in SYSUT1? I got:
MEMBER NAME AAAWTF control line
Line before data line
MEMBER NAME FOOBAR data line (but how does it know?)
Line after data line
>It is documented, you could consider giving it a whirl with something else and
>lettings us know.
>
Wherein I find gems such as:
Both the output data set and the message data set can be written to the
system output device if it is a printer.
What does that mean? If it's not a printer, can only one of them be written to
it?
If the member card entry is not used, the entire data cell will be printed.
How long has it been since IBM marketed a data cell? (I'll submit an RCF on
that.)
How does one restore a PDS from IEBPTPCH output? It's probably somewhere.
I haven't found it.
(Is this good old IBM documentation or sloppy new IBM documentation?)
-- gil
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