On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:38:22 -0400, René Jansen wrote: >https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/nKfGUhdkO8U > Which links to a 7-minute video lecture by Brooks in which he fails to mention the most essential (IMO) feature of JCL: the ability to ENQ multiple data set names in a molecular operation.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 20:40:16 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: > > ..., and very few improvements can be made to it without invalidating > bazillions of lines of existing JCL code, ... > That's a fallacy akin to asserting that Rexx or Python could not be adopted without invalidating bazillions of lines of existing Assembler code. JCL could coexist with its successor. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
