-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)
<SNIP> > >2c) All characters after a double dash, --, are comments until the end >of the logical line and are ignored. Eg: > //DD1 DD DISP=SHR, -- THIS IS A COMMENT Why do you want this one? Anything after the first space following the operands is a comment. <SNIP> Because he wants JCL to behave as if it were an object oriented language, similar to C++ I noticed that some of the wanted behaviors already exist in JCL today. The only major thing would be the variable length lines. But that's just my opinion after using JCL, JECL, OCL, ECL, and one or two others I've forgotten. Regards, Steve Thompson -- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
