On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:54:06 +0000, willie bunter wrote: > > >John, > >Quick question. Could you tell me how I can continue on the next line. > For example :mvsput 'FTP.V8050.MVS.BUILDJCL' 'DRP.V8050.MVS.BUILDJCL.NEW' > (REAllocate > > > >If the output disn has more characters I run out of space . I tried > typing + as a continuation (in col 72) and then on the next lineI typed ' > (REAllocate. > >mvsput 'FTP.V8050.MVS.BUILDJCL' 'DRP.V8050.MVS.BUILDJCL.NEW' > +(REAllocate > > > Why restrict yourself to 72 characters? For many releases now, JCL > has imposed no such restriction on SYSIN. > > Old habits, however detrimental, die hard. > Job may be in a "normal" production JCL library. Trying to convince a production control person that JCL can be in anything other than an FB/80 library is likely to be a very frustrating experience. Sometimes we must do things old style just to placate other people. Yes, it would be nice to educate people. But it can be _impossible_ in some cases. I had a JCL checker which I set up to do a WARNING if the JCL contained obsolete but acceptable parameters. I was raked over the coals by a programmer who "has been coding JCL for over 25 years, damn it!" when I flagged a SEP= in his JCL. He _refused_ to stop coding it. And he complained up the chain that the JCL checker was broken because it flagged the statement as "accepted by unneeded". He demanded it be changed to not issue the warning because it was distracting to him and "hiding" any "real problems". > > -- gil > > -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
