On 11/5/2013 7:26 PM, David Crayford wrote:
I don't think it's perceived as boring, certainly it's perceived as user hostile. Take Pauls cp command example, it's easy to copy files using a simple command. For those that prefer GUIs they can drag and drop or copy/paste. On the mainframe one has no choice but to run JCL. JCL certainly is an antique, and a very unpleasant one.
IIRC, IBM has had a simple COPY command ever since TSO/E - no JCL needed. JCL is unpleasant only if you're not used to it; I've run on Univac, Unisys, CDC, and other systems, and found JCL to be a good compromise of simplicity and power.
And I find "cp" terribly confusing - to a neophyte does it stand for copy, or compare, or compress (as in disk reorganization). It might make more sense if I could assign an alias of COPY to it.
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