On 2016-12-20, at 09:40, Tom Brennan wrote: > LOL - best comment so far :) > > Steve Smith wrote: >> I think the strangest thing is somebody is actually using IEBGENER control >> cards. > In this case, I wanted only to insert a comment. But I have used them to create aliases in batch JCL. Is there a better way?
On 2016-12-20, at 09:34, Greg Shirey wrote: > I hesitate to ask, but how are you using IEBGENER without JCL? > Is that a serious question? Use your imagination. I suppose, in extreme pedantry there's always JCL. In TSO, there's the LOGON Proc; In UNIX, there's BPXAS. But neither of those gives me much opportunity to insert comments. On 2016-12-20, at 09:17, Steve Smith wrote: > I think the strangest thing is somebody is actually using IEBGENER control > cards. I did once, 2-3 decades ago, and mainly just to try it, as best as > I recall. > > And, it's a pretty simple utility, how bad do the control cards *really* > need to be documented? > If you read the Utilities Reference, it's not so simple. The documentation there is necessary. But, in my case, with potentially dozens of invocations of IEBGENER in a single job step, I wanted a comment only to differentiate the SYSPRINTs. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
