A textiles company that hired me in 1980 started me out with two DELTAK courses (I sat in a room with video tapes for a few days), one in COBOL and the other in JCL. Got a solid grounding in both, and to this day it's a mystery to me how many professional mainframers can't do JCL. Many of them can modify an existing job, by replacing a DSN for example, and think that's adequate.
Admittedly I prefer to write foreground commands than submit everything in batch. But sheesh, how is it possible to do this job without being able to write JCL? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* I grew up in a WASP household, and my wife grew up in a Cuban household. If a WASP wedding is scheduled to start at 2pm Saturday, the bride will come down the aisle at 2:03pm, no matter what....Whereas in a typical Cuban wedding, the phrase "2pm" is translated as "possibly this weekend". I believe that the Cuban community will not be affected by the Millennium Bug until the year 2004 at the earliest. -from "Time Out!" by Dave Barry */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bob T Roller Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 16:30 I learned PL/I, WATFIV, FORTRAN, GPSS, assembler, and a few other languages in college. Never used any of them. COBOL was an elective, which I took, and used extensively for 25 years. One professor, when asked what JCL was by a fellow student, said it’s unimportant and will be irrelevant. JCL was probably the most important & used “language” of my career. Which I learned via the EDS OPD program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
