On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:25:49 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote:
>If you only need to be able to differentiate, how about using the "label"?
>Starting in column one and extending all the way to column eight if you need
>it, just make a reference (more contracted than your comment may have been
>intended to be) to each particular execution.
>
If the rest of the record is blank, I get RC=12;
IEB339I COMMAND MISSING PRECEDING COL.71
The best approach seems to be using a mostly harmless command (reasserting a
default)
and comment in the rest of the line.
>What functionality of IEBGENER are you using?
>
o Simple copy; no editing; no Alias, plus
o Copying attributed from SYSUT1 (which I can't control) to SYSUT2.
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:22:22 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>> >
>> ... But I have used
>> them to create aliases in batch JCL. Is there a better way?
>
>There are other ways, but if IEBGENER works for your task, then that's
>great. I'd probably be more inclined to use IEBUPDTE, but the syntax is
>completely different, and may not be suitable for your purposes. And I
>doubt it supports comments either (I didn't check).
>
o Does IEBUPDTE restrict me to fixed-80?
o Does IEBUPDTE require control records before/after the data, which
requires an existing file be copied to a temporary data set to insert
them?
o Does IEBUPDTE tolerate data records which may contain "./" in the first
two columns?
o Does IEBUPDTE require sequence numbers?
>Bottom line is your usage and desire for commenting ability are perfectly
>valid. Just don't think you're going to get much traction on it.
-- gil
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