On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > A JCL member can be available again tomorrow or sometime in the next > decade when the task need repeating. > > ​True, but so can a shell script. However, I think that in most cases the majority of z/OS people are more likely to understand the JCL than a shell script. This even though I, personally, prefer to use shell commands (yes, I just remember them - likely means I use them too often). The main reason being that I sometimes end up being in a UNIX environment (shell prompt instead of TSO) and want to make a "scratch filesystem" for some temporary space. It's easier for me to:
mkdir ~/temp zfsadm define -aggregate myhlq.temp.zfs -cyl 20 10 zfsadm format -aggregate myhlq.temp.zfs -perms 0755 -compat -version5 mount -f myhlq.temp.zfs ~/temp # bunch of commands which use the temp space unmount ~/temp rmdir ~/temp tsocmd "del temp.zfs" Not as easy as using a TSO ALLOC command in TSO, but simpler for me to do than "switching mindset to TSO / JCL" to allocate & format the UNIX space. -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
