>From my naive viewpoint it's not hard to do a better replacement, if it not >were these two catches:
1. The corresponding functionality in the initiator code etc, etc... 2. The fact that everyone and everything is accustomed to the JCL as it is! As inline data is now allowed in procs as of z/OS 1.13 You could e g have a rexx pgm that reads input that can have any syntax of Your choice and execute it as allocations etc - and even interpret eventual rexx code in the data. The real problem is to get a formalized syntax that is easy to understand and non-ambiguous for operational personnel in general - but first and foremost accepted "universally" or at least by the majority of vendors et al. And here we stumble on the fact that everything (more or less) in this world is proprietary and dependent of IBM... Regards, Thomas Berg _________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist A M SWEDBANK > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För > Elardus Engelbrecht > Skickat: den 8 december 2011 13:33 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today > > Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > >I put this up a while ago. It is a talk given by Fred Brooks, Jr. on the > 40th year anniversary of the IBM/360. He doesn't seem to like JCL that > much, either. :-) > > >http://lilliana.eu/downloads/jcltalk.txt > > Thanks. Very interesting. > > I see JCL as a way where the system makes input and output to be available > to a program. > > Example: A COBOL program reads in a dataset and write it out somewhere. It > does not care where that dataset really is residing. Tape? Dataset? > Terminal. Where is that output? Anywhere, printer, JESSPOOL, another tape. > > Now JCL is a way to combine all these things. > > There is one catch ... Actual implementation gone ***** badly wrong. > 'Backward compatibility' made it worse. > > Ok, ok, that is just my opinion. Feel free to flame me. ;-D > > If I can get a cent for everytime someone said 'I hate JCL', I could > retire and get me that 100 metre yacht with a crew and girlies... :-D > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
