On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Oh, wow! I want a whipsocket on my dashboard. I could use it to hold a very long bull whip to use on people who are irritating me while I drive. Why did we ever remove such a useful facility?!? > > 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 > -- 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
