Today the IBM announcements newsletter included the
preview for z/OS 1.13.
One point that caught my eye immediately:
* Support is planned for in-stream data sets
to be used within JCL procedures and for
include statements.
Well! That's been a long time coming. But I'm sure
more than a few on this list will appreciate it.
(Note: announced for JES2 only)
Another interesting change:
* Support is planned for job return codes.
This support will be designed to allow you
to specify that the job return code be set
to the highest return code encountered by
any step, the last step, or a specified
step in the job. This will help make it
simpler to interpret the results of job
execution.
For ISPF:
* Line command level Edit macros
There are _tons_ of other enhancements listed:
this looks to be one of the most complex new
releases in quite a while. I'll report on the
ones that seem significant to the application
development community in my annual post after
the docs are available and I've had a chance
to through them more carefully. But the
above seemed significant and easy to grasp
right away.
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