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<CAAJSdjhUjOS-+pERaZHK8g-agKJsRqeoKtwmZSge=rqpndw...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 11/09/2013
at 04:06 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:
>I have often wished that JCL were more powerful. Or were replaced
>with something along the lines of REXX. But there is one simple
>phrase I will utter which explains why it would probably never fly:
>"What about automated restart?". Do people write REXX programs
>which can be easily restarted should a problem occur within them?
>There isn't anything like a "checkpoint" or "commit" and "rollback".
>OK, JCL doesn't do that either.
What are RD=R and RESTART=foo, chopped liver? Admittedly there are
restrictions, but the facility has been there since OS/360.
--
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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