On Feb 1, 2022, at 14:47:15, Tony Thigpen wrote: > ... > VSE has had JCL "GOTO" since "whenever", but JES2 did not have it for a long > time. > Perhaps not even yet. I can't find GOTO in the JCL Ref. What JES2 manual should I search. Can you code loops with it?
> ... (And don't get me started on z/OS JCL's 'backward' condition code > processing.) > I've long assumed that designers recruited from Assembler developers thought in terms of "branch around". And I understand that VSE places the DD (DTF?) statements before the EXEC. That properly reflects the order of processing: ALLOCATE first, then ATTACH. That's how it's done in CLIST; Rexx; etc. But DTF DI? The attributes it requires seem very device-specific; not independent. -- gil
