On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:45:38 +0200, ITschak Mugzach wrote: >BTW, I wrote a rexx interpreter of JCL a year ago. ITs so easy because JCL >has a name token format, almost nothing is positional. > Parameters on JOB? Parameters on EXEC? Subparameters of DCB, LABEL, ...? (Well, you said "almost".)
> ... You miss an IF before the first exec? insert a dummy EXEC >PGM-IEFBR14. Does nothing and allows the IF. > Why should such mickeymouse be necessary? Why shoudn't IF just behave intuitively, governing everything between THEN and ELSE/ENDIF? Why does it not issue at least warnings on use of unsupported/deprecated constructs? I consider this splendid evidence of "What's wrong with JCL?" And it's a new feature, hardly primeval. How did this ever pass design review? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
