In <[email protected]>, on
11/09/2013
at 12:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>o Allow TABs as whitespace in JCL statments. Some of us edit
> JCL on desktop systems and reflexively use TAB for formatting.
> the "invalid character" message then has a high Astonishment
> Factor.
But don't ever add Tab as a separator with different semantics from
Space. We hates it, Precious.
>o Uniform DSNAME syntax. At present, on the DD statement hyphens
> are allowed in DSN=dsname; prohibited in DCB=dsname. Permit
> hyphens in both places. (I see no plausible rationale for this
> inconsistency other than Conway's Law; perhaps others can
> enlighten me.)
Originally the R/I and later the C/I allowed a hyphen in a member
name, and I've got utilities that treat such a hyphen as a wildcard
character. I'd like to see IBM add formal support for wildcard
characters in the member name, possibly with the restriction that they
be removed (via RDJFCB/OPENJ) by the application program.
>o At present, the minimum syntax for defaulting SYSOUT class is
> SYSOUT=(,);
SYSOUT=* is shorter and more readable.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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