Gil,

Same here I use Linux a lot , love see what you did, I do some stuff in
oRexx on z/PDT ...

Scott

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:54 AM Martin Packer <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Paul, do you have a sample?
>
> (This would actually enable something for me.)
>
> Thanks, Martin
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 31 Dec 2018, at 16:01, Paul Gilmartin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:29:19 +0000, Sean Gleann wrote:
> >>
> >> As for "This is the sort of thing that should be routinely provided by
> the
> >> OS." - a huge YES! to that, and other associated values like 'first
> working
> >> day of the week/month/year' and so on.
> >> Its a crying shame that the only other way of getting such values in  to
> a
> >> jobstream - that I know of! - is by spending $many for something like
> CA-7
> >> or Tivoli.
> >>
> > I have routinely kept JCL wrapped in UNIX shell scripts, as
> here-documents
> > (think "instream") in which I can routinely do such things with command
> > substitution.  z/OS UNIX is a boon, and the (incremental) price is right.
> >
> > And Peter R. has clarified that it's not customers but IBM that's advised
> > to use SYS as a prefix.  Should ISVs yet stay with registered componend
> > prefixes?
> >
> > -- gil
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