I vote symlink as well.

Rob Schramm

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 4:45 PM John McKown <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I like the SYMLINK idea. I do that myself, "by hand".
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dammit!  The path to Java changes with any z/OS release and/or
> > any Java release.  I need continually to add to my PATH variable
> > to keep up.  And there's nothing an ISV can supply in JCL samples
> > for SMP/E's SMPJHOME; the example in the SMP/E Reference is
> > woefully outdated.
> >
> > This makes as little sense as if programmers were required to
> > code "//SYSLIB  DD  DSN=SYS1.ZOSV2R2.MACLIB".
> >
> > I'm inclined to submit an RFE for either a utility to find Java or for
> > IBM's supplying a usable symbolic  link to a preferred Java.
> > Retroactive; I can't wait for everyone to be on z/OS 2.3
> >
> > Any suggestions on form or rationale for such an RFE?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > gil
> >
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