It's Friday. Long ago I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria. Rode once in a taxi whose driver kept a switch (thin tree branch) on the dashboard. Whenever a swerving bicycle rider came too close, driver would grab the switch and whip the rider. No special automotive accessory required.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 7:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: FTP JCL EXAMPLE - FTP PDS On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
