On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:02:47 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > >2) many historical keyword subparameters, e.g., those of the DCB= >keyword parameter, have been half promoted: they continue to be usable >as subparameters, but they may now also be coded as parameters > All DCB subparameters, or only some? And when used in connection with PATH=..., they may be used only as parameters, not as DCB subparameters. I suspect the need to enforce this restriction embodies the rationale for promotion of those subparameters.
>5) The curious restriction that positional parameters must precede >keyword ones has been retained, a long, long time after its relaxation >in the HLASM macro language > But note that despite appearance PGM=... is not a keyword parameter but a positional parameter whose allowable values are required to contain "=". >6) In these and other respects JCL has become a patchwork. It is no >longer coherent: a knowledge of some of its facilities does not permit >plausible, almost invariably confirmed conjectures about the rest of >them to be made. > In this respect, it's highly consistent with the specification of HLASM. >7) Op. cit. [in the work (already) cited] is a suitable locution for >avoiding the repetitive full identification of a document. In >standard scholarly usage it must be accompanied by a page number, >paragraph reference, or the like; and this requirement is a >particularly urgent one when the document in question contains >multiple, not entirely consistent discussions of the same topic. > "not entirely consistent" could be material for an RCF. Would "loc. cit." have been better? (But I was merely too lazy to verify the reference.) The online IBM manuals are infuriating in this respect: They provide a link to the publication title, but not to the page nor the chapter title, and when I follow the link I am presented with a list of every edition of publications matching the title. I hate JCL! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
