On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:17:35 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >I guess when the utility was developed JCL was way simpler and test cases >were limited. > >After Gil raised the various gotchas, I wrote myself a PUTPDS program with >a user defined delimiter. Eschewing 2 bytes means I can come up with a very >random string such as !@#$%^&* ADD NAME=MEMBER. Not likely to be embedded >in usual members. > >Now adding some bells and whistles. Not that I need it in retirement. Golf >today. > Bravo!
Although I still favor off-the-shelf techniques such as IEBCOPY and TRANSMIT. Although those lack the flexibility of editable text transport containers. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
