On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:11:53 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >Coming from the z/VSE world, some of the JCL stuff in z/OS just is 'weird'. > I understand that in z/VSE tne DD statementw precede the EXEC for the step. Intuitive because allocation is done first.
>1) In z/VSE, the conditional jcl statements are more logical, not >something akin to RPN. >2) Our SETPARMs are sequential. You can have multiple SETPARMs of the >same variable in the same step and intervening statements are processed >using the 'then value' of the SETPARM. >3) We can modify and even define SETPARM values via programs as a way to >pass information between steps. > >Don't get me wrong, there are good things in both, but sometimes issues >with the underlying basics of each lead to strange 'higher level' items. > >Working daily on z/VSE, z/VM and z/OS really get's confusing sometimes. >Even simple things like responding to a console message. z/VSE needs the >outstanding message number, followed by a space, then the response. Yet, >z/OS usually needs a comma where z/VSE had the space, but not always. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
