In <[email protected]>, on
11/09/2013
at 12:07 PM, John McDowell <[email protected]> said:
>With this context in mind I would be interested in hearing ideas
>about what JCL could be.
Are you including allocation and disposition messages?
>- Creating a new attribute (that needs to be acted on by a
>component other than the Converter/Interpreter (C/I)) is difficult
It used to be, back in OS/360, but with the addition of SJF it became
a piece of cake.
>- Providing new functions that are performed by the C/I (e.g.
>iteration, simple arithmetic, etc.) is possible
Probably harder than you think.
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