On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:29:19 +0000, Sean Gleann wrote: > >As for "This is the sort of thing that should be routinely provided by the >OS." - a huge YES! to that, and other associated values like 'first working >day of the week/month/year' and so on. >Its a crying shame that the only other way of getting such values in to a >jobstream - that I know of! - is by spending $many for something like CA-7 >or Tivoli. > I have routinely kept JCL wrapped in UNIX shell scripts, as here-documents (think "instream") in which I can routinely do such things with command substitution. z/OS UNIX is a boon, and the (incremental) price is right.
And Peter R. has clarified that it's not customers but IBM that's advised to use SYS as a prefix. Should ISVs yet stay with registered componend prefixes? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
