The problem is e-mail software that makes it difficult to do proper quoting. Take Office365 - please!
A good rule of thumb is that if you suspect that I am making a pun, I probably am. Certainly "gim" was intended as a reference to SMP/E. Similar considerations will apply if I write, e.g., "I ce". When does SMP/E ATTACH two utilities concurrently? AFAIK it only attaches them consecutively. -- 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: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? I wish people would usr the traditional ">" quotation marks to distinguish citation depth. On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:25:47 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I've written plenty of code that invokes language processors and other >utilities in a batch environment, as have others, and I'd be very surprised if >there weren't several such programs on the CBT tape. For that matter, most of >you have probably used one such program from IBM, a real gim. > "... a real gim"? GIMSMP? SMP/E in a batch environment relies heavily on invoking utilities, even concurrently, with alternate DDNAME lists. But perhaps the program that ITschak needs doesn't support an alternate DDNAME list. ________________________________________ From: Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:01 PM > Really? Perhaps I'm being dense, but I don't see how that helps in a batch environment. And I don't see how something like DDNAME= would help that in a TSO environment. As Shmuel said enigmatically above. -- 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
