I take it you don't like REXX scripts, since they can conditionally select different dynamic allocations.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 6:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS I was more talking about JCL forcing the DD-to-dataset relationships into one place, which makes them easier to find. Here's a line I had to mess with last week in a Linux shell script: $IM_INSTALL_LOCATION/eclipse/IBMIM -input "$SCRIPTHOME/updateSKLM.xml" While those $ variables are set in that same script, various "if" statements and other sources make it difficult to figure out what the end result of the command might be. On 1/7/2022 1:16 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > +There's no forced standard for the choice of ddnames either; you need to > know whether it's INPUT, SYSIN, SYSUT1 or "E. None of the above." > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] > Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 4:03 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS > > Yes, but since there's no forced standard, variables and other methods > mean I might have to look the script or code to figure out what's going > on. Sometimes that can get quite complex with the things people do that > eventually comes up with a filename/path string. JCL makes everything > nice and neat and in one place. > > On 1/7/2022 12:01 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> >> Variables and file handles may not be the same as DD names, but they can >> serve the same function. >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
