Sorry for the delayed response...
Yes, it is permissible to omit the continuation mark.
>From the z/OS V1R10.0 MVS JCL Reference manual section 17.1.4:
Continuing a Relational Expression
You can continue relational-expressions on the next JCL statement. Break the
relational-expression where a blank is valid on the current statement, and
continue the expression beginning in column 4 through 16 of the next
statement. Do not put comments on the statement that you are continuing.
You can code comments after you have completed the statement. For
example:
//TESTCON IF (RC = 8 | RC = 10 | RC = 12 |
// RC = 14) THEN COMMENTS OK HERE
Note the lack of continuation character.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:22:06 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com>
wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:08:32 -0600, Robert Birdsall wrote:
>
>>Similar to Gil's reply - skip if you've had enough...
>> ...
>>// IF (STEPA.RC = 4 AND STEPB.RC = 0 AND STEPC.RUN = FALSE AND
>>// STEPD.RC = 8 AND STEPE.RUN = FALSE) OR
>> ...
>>
>Is it permissible to omit the continuation mark in col. 72
>as you appear to have done? I thought that was permitted
>only if the continued line ended with a comma.
>
>(I looked briefly, not thoroughly, for this in the IF...ELSE
>chapter of the JCL RM.)
>
>Beware of COND=ONLY to suppress execution. Decades ago, a
>colleague did that, but a prior step ABENDed. Embarrassing
>because it was my program. I've since used COND=(0,LE).
>
>Still waiting for a followup in COND format from the person who
>posed the challenge...
>
>-- gil
>
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