On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:50:23 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > <snip> > > > Wouldn't it be great if the C/I could run shell scripts > (or Rexx, or Perl or ...)? > > //NAME SHELL,DLM=EOD > ... > shell commands, executed after substituting JCL symbols, > whose stdout is fed back to the C/I input stream. > ... > EOD > > (Just seeking the least cognitive dissonance to dinos.) > > Gil, I link your idea a lot. It reminds me of how Unix executables can be any interpreter using the "#! /some/prog" The general notion that JCL could adopt shell features (while remaining backward compatible) is very interesting. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
