On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 22:10:12 -0500, Peter Bishop wrote:
>Thanks heaps.
>
Yaay! You're welcome.
>Firstly, the inline 'no op' which is handy but needs care.
>
Oops!
Other thoughts:
BPXWUNIX supports DD:STDIN, DD:STDOUT, and DD:STDERR, for the
cost of a trivial Rexx driver. Then you get true multi-line code in
STDIN and comments work. But the FB80 afflicts you with trailing
blanks which interfere with continuation.
(You can code such a Rexx driver instream and REPRO it into SYSEXEC,
or keep it in a library.)
If you're using an editor such as ISPF that lets you insert binary
characters in hex, you can code:
SET NL='newline'
CHANGE 'newline' x'15'
... and use STDPARM SYMBOLS to insert linebreaks. You need
this only once, in a JCLLIB member. Code the &NL at the front
of each STDPARM line rather than the back to avoid leading blanks.
I hate JCL!
-- gil
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