Well, if you introduced the concept of steps into a script language then it shouldn't be too hard to also add the concept of passed data sets. Named temporary data sets also shouldn't be difficult. Or you could just use, e.g., ~/temp.
Overrides are necessary unless you can anticipate every ad hoc change that the user might want to make; otherwise he would have to edit the script. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 2:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 18:47:47 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >ENQ and overrides come to mind. > Add passed temporary DSNs to the list. Are overrides necessary? Is there anything that overrides that couldn't be done (in a more controlled manner) with symbol substitution? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
