On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:26:14 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >Seriously? That COLS line was for demonstration purposes to show that both >the Control cards and Comments are within the first 72 bytes. It is NOT >part of the control cards nor is it a comment. > I was hoping for a way to code a comment.
>> And I was looking for a form where SYSIN contains no commands, only >comments. > >What is the purpose of this? When you are invoking a program/utility, you >can pass parameters to the program/utility via a PARM statement or SYSIN. >In your case you chose NOT to pass any parameters via SYSIN. That brings >us to the question "what is the purpose of having comments?" > Adding identifying information to SYSPRINT, where I'd expect comments to be listed along with control statements. I needed none of the latter. >What is stopping you from coding a COMMENTS dd and you can have all your >comments in there? > ... and in the next job step modding IEBGENER's sysprint to that. I'm doing that now. But since IEBGENER already has a SYSIN, I was hoping I could put the comments there and avoid the extra job step. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
