On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:07:37 -0500, Mitch wrote: > >I have done support for automated JCL management tools for the past 30+ years >and it is amazing the number of "features" in JCL that are not documented in >the IBM JCL reference manual. It was difficult dealing with clients who would >tell us they had coded something in their JCL, yet there was no mention of it >being a capability. .....made it difficult sometimes to keep up! > I believe IBM's rule (stated in one or more cases) is that if it ain't documented it ain't supported; it ain't predictable; it ain't stable; and it ain't guaranteed to stay how it is in the next release, PUT, or even PTF.
Of course the customer is always right, and even IBM listens to sufficiently big customers. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
