On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:46:20 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>coding of parsers for the various JCL operands was parceled out to >>different programmers. Each could decide independently whether to >>support symbol substitution. > >Most of the coding was done before there were symbols. > Does that mean before there were PROCs? PROCs are little use without symbols. Or was everything done with overrides?
>>Once again, the deficiencies I perceive in Rexx are: > >OS issues rather than REXX issues. If z/OS had the suuport it would be >easy for Rexx to exploit it. > For most of what I cited, JCL/initiator exploits it. That suggests that something is in initiator that would more properly be in allocation. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
