On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 01:52:25 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > >Seems to me the only think that Make would be of use for in our environment >would be figuring out which COBOL programs to recompile when a copybook is >changed. > Not necessarily in COBOL, but, heck, for that alone it's precious. No need to remember whch JCL member to submit or tailor. Just edit one or more sources; type "make" (no parameters necessary) and it happens.
A configuration management system can provide homomorphic source directories at various development levels so the same makefile can be used at each. You can do wonderful things when you escape the constraint of a one-level namespace. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
