On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:28:37 -0500, John McKown wrote >> >> 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. ... > Sigh. Will this take longer than it took to remove the whipsockets from the design of motorcar dashboards?
OK. An alternative technology, but alas, newer and subject perhaps to greater future shock: Define the long data set name in a SET statement. code "INPUT DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY" to enable substitution of the symbol. Caution: if the SET precedes an EXEC, astonishing, perhaps undesirable results may occur. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
