What happened to TLBL?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Bernd Oppolzer [bernd.oppol...@t-online.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 7:29 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: External Assembler REXX Function And, BTW, the DD statement is called "DLBL" in VSE. And yes, it is coded before the EXEC statement. Kind regards Bernd Am 02.02.2022 um 01:25 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer: > Am 01.02.2022 um 23:36 schrieb Paul Gilmartin: >> 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? > > No. > > VSE's GOTO can only be used to GO forward. > > If the target of GOTO is not unique in the job stream > (which in our case - CA VOLLIE - can easily occur, because > jobs can contain sub-jobs via -INC and the sub-jobs can > have GOTOs, too, maybe with the same labels) > then GOTO goes to the next matching label :-) > > GOTO, BTW, is very helpful, if you have a large job which ABENDs > somewhere > in the middle, and you have to restart it later at a certain step :-) > > HTH, kind regards > > Bernd
