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

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