On 2017-05-09, at 10:20, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > Burroughs 5500 MCS (and possibly later, I didn't get to see those) had WFL, > Work Flow Language, which was nearly the full Burroughs Algol language, minus > the I/O facilities. > > Very powerful and flexible. Your "JCL" was an actual program, and IIRC it > was compiled for execution. Fun stuff. > > Shell scripts are all well and good for those who understand them I suppose, > but they have their quirks and deficiencies too. I can read and write them > myself, but many application programmers cannot yet do so, and are stuck with > JCL. > Don't consider a deficit of knowledge an insurmountable obstacle.
For z/OS, Rexx might be a better fit than sh. What JCL facilities are absent from most other languages?: o Atomic and persistent ENQ SYSDSN to avoid deadlocks. o Passed data sets/referbacks. o DISP=RETAIN. o Other (specify)? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
