On 2017-07-05, at 13:53, Gibney, Dave wrote: >> >>> A JCL member can be available again tomorrow or sometime in the next >>> decade when the task need repeating. >>> >> ​True, but so can a shell script. ... > > Either or both are more keystrokes than I care to do frequently on the fly. > Typos happen. > Write once, cut'n'paste forever. > I suspect programmers are more alike than you allow for. I can hardly imagine a proficient UNIX programmer who won't use a script for a recurrent task.
OTOH, I know a proficient Assembler programmer whom I used to watch as he: READY ... ALLOCATE DD(SYSUT1) DSN(*) [ up to about a dozen lines of source code ] /* CALL 'SYS1.LINKLIB(IFOX00)' Showoff. --gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN