On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 23:30:00 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
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>I'm just curious - why not put comments in JCL if you can not put it in SYSIN?
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What if there's no JCL?
I've resorted to writing a line to a file and appending SYSPRINT to that.
But it's cumbersome.
And I'd be considerably helped if the message:
IEB352I WARNING: ONE OR MORE OF THE OUTPUT DCB PARMS COPIED FROM INPUT
specifically identified the DDNAMES instead of "INPUT" and "OUTPUT".
for example, in one of my cases:
IEB352I WARNING: ONE OR MORE OF THE SYS00063 DCB PARMS COPIED FROM SYS00061
Assembler, Binder, IEBCOPY, other programs provide good summaries of data
set usage. IEBGENER has no excuse for not doing likewise other than antiquity.
I have little respect for antiquity as an excuse. When someone tells me, "It's
not better because it's forty years old", my reactioh is often, "You mean they
have had that long in which they could have fixed it, and they haven't!?"
-- gil
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