On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:10:31 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Oh my gosh, you would have to maintain JCL forever for that and a dozen other >reasons. > >BUT! Conceivably ... conceivably ... you might stabilize it and do everything >new in Rexx going forward. > If the replacement had a superset of JCL function, providing a JCL-to-replacement translation utility would allow discarding direct support for JCL.
>-----Original Message----- >From: John Melcher, Jr >Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 10:46 AM > >Once upon a time a LONG time ago this was a GUIDE requirement. It was >voted down due to the amount of automated systems that generated JCL. >You'd have to keep JCL, probably forever, because of those systems. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
