On Tue, 9 May 2017 09:54:22 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Tue, 9 May 2017 08:16:48 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>>The JCL Ref. indicates that they are available to the
>>//*FORMAT PR statement.
>>
>>("//*FORMAT PR" looks uncomfortably like a comment. Is
>>this a reserved comment? Ugh!)
>
>It's a JES3 JECL statement.
>There is a good reason it looks like a comment.
>It allows JCL to be coded that contains Job Entry Control Language statements
>for both JES2 and JES3, so that it can be run in either environment.
>
I don't consider it a good reason. It would have been better to provide a
PRAGMA directive as many other languages do, rather than to usurp
part of the comment grammar with attendant risk of astonishment.
-- gil
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