Re: [open-cobol-list] What do you think of JCL ?

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Wim Niemans wrote:

> Later on came spooling (obsoleting the printer being available at run
> time), memory swapping (no scarce resources anymore), removable properties
> became obsolete by large disks and mass storage, the console is totally
> obsolete by the shell, and so on.

Most of the above might be true, but I have a z/OS console to my left as I
type this.  It's a 3270 emulator running on a PC instead of a 3179 terminal
connected to a 3174 controller, but it's still a z/OS console.

> So for this specific property of JCL there is no use any more.

JCL is definitely still useful in the IBM mainframe world.  Where I work
there are just over 1,300 members in our production JCL library.  



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