John,
At the time we used Panvalet and it was extremely simple to use it.
The (probably) only real advantage of Panvalet at the time, simple
and straight forward.
We also had strict job card rules which made it a lot easier to insert .
I never cared for IEBEDIT myself. Especially since Panvalet was
simple to use.
Our jobcard standards was cumbersome but it helped out the accounting
people so one really can't complain.
Ed
On May 14, 2012, at 11:28 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
People who are familiar with and knowledgeable about IEBEDIT make
significant use of it. Others of course do not.
This difference is largely generational. When SYSGENs were still
required their stage 2s, the job streams generated by the expansion of
the system-defining stage 1 macro instructions, often failed (chiefly
but not only because real DASD storage requirements had been
underestimated). It was then necessary to restart this job stream,
beginning typically with the failing job step (and altered DD
statements for one or more data sets). In these circumstances one
necessarily became very familiar with IEBEDIT, which was used to edit
the stage 2 job stream to produce a recovery one.
It remains a useful utility, and those who don't use it should study
the few manual pages that describe it.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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