what does he mean by "... a schedule time operation..."? what does that mean?
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 3. tammikuuta 2010 23:51 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Why is JCL so bad was Re: Basic question on passing JCL set symbol to proc >Whereas what you really want is a schedule time operation in whatever >language you're working in. > Here, I strongly disagree. This is the C-shell blunder. You want a langage suited to the problem. C-shell attempts to do scripting with a C-like flavor. JCL attempts to do scheduling with an assembler-like flavor. Both are misguided in the choice of objective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html