>Utility control cards adhere to the JCL/Assembler "standard" >allowing comments on the control cards after the last operand, >and with one or more separating spaces. If that's not enough >room, you're out of luck. > >If you're updating to a temporary, why not include comments in >the contents, appropriate to the language or other format you're >updating?
What I've created is a SYSIN dataset to IEBUPDTE which generates the individual SYSIN members for an ICETOOL job. I.e., one generated member contains the DFSORT SYMNAMES definitions, one member is contains the TOOLIN control cards, the other members are the individual control card members for the various statements in TOOLIN. I did it this way so that I can maintain all of the control cards for the entire ICETOOL job in a single dataset, rather than in separate members. The job begins by using IEBUPDTE to burst the dataset into temporary members, which are then referenced in the ICETOOL step. I was hoping that there would be a supported IEBUPDTE syntax to have an entire line devoted to a comment, rather than my being restricted to remarks appended to the ends of control statements. That way, I could put a tombstone at the top of the IEBUPDTE input dataset explaining what the ICETOOL job does. I hope this makes sense... David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
