I have some Perl code at work which does "things" with IDCAMS output. I'm at home. It's 01:00 local time. I need to learn how to sleep again. I hate being old. And yes, I do consider the alternative to be better any more.
Of course, as far as reading my Perl code is concerned, all I can say is that it is easier to understand than my APL code was. <grin> Oh, how I __LOVED__ using APL at college. On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 16:03 +1000, Shane wrote: > Hmmm - I'm not altogether sure that I'm comfortable with IDCAMS and > "efficient" being mentioned in the same sentence. Be that as it may, > for large runs, I did find that assembler invocations of the CSI were > significantly faster than REXX doing likewise. Horses for courses - > REXX is fine for quick jobs. > > But to the task at hand - these days I might be inclined to mangle the > output of a LISTCAT with perl to get what was wanted. We've probably > all got some REXX that'll do (some of) it somewhere, but perl (or awk) > are designed for this sort of thing, and reformatting would likely be > easier. After my experiences early last year, I might be inclined to > make sure I wasn't feeding VBA into it though ... > > Shane ... -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
