What would one do with JCL that had been converted to HTML? Serious question.
Do you have an example screen shot? I did not see one on your site. Does it just produce HTML that displays the JCL highlighted as the ISPF editor would? Why would one do that rather than simply view the JCL in ISPF? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2018 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: JCL "diagramming"? On 2018-03-29 16:11, David Boyes wrote: > On 3/29/18, 11:23 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John > McKown" <[email protected] on behalf of > [email protected]> > wrote: > > This is a weird idea that is floating around in my head. I am > wondering if there is any software which can create a "picture", "diagram", > or "flowchart" > of JCL? I'm not too sure if this is even a useful thought. It's just a > scratch that I must itch (or something like that). What this may > eventually morph into is a scheduling diagram showing our production job flow. > > > A while back, there was a tool that did something similar for CMS > pipelines applications and could step through the operation of the > pipeline app and visualize it. I'm drawing a blank on the name, but I > think it was called PIPETEST or something similar, written by someone > at SAS Institute. (There was a YouTube video of it on developerworks, > but it seems to be Yet Another Missing Document 404 on an IBM website > and the developerworks web site is completely offline at the moment > (midday on a business day -- seriously, IBM?)). I wonder if that could > be a good starting point. You'd have to generate a formal grammar for > JCL and then write the interpreter for it, but the grammar might exist > somewhere; on Linux, you could use yacc and lex to eat a job stream > and parse out the various bits you're interested in. It'd be a lot of > footwork, but certainly not impossible. You might have a look at EHIJCL, my REXX exec to convert JCL into ISPF-like HTML (in case you need to do a presentation, and don't have access to a live z/OS system) @ https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS%20Tools.html It wouldn't be too hard to add exits to the various keyword processing routines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
