I've certainly got to learn this JCL.
Don't hurt your brain!
From the Wikipedia article, here is how to copy one file to another (get one bit wrong, and it won't work):
//IS198CPY JOB (IS198T30500),'COPY JOB',CLASS=L,MSGCLASS=X
//COPY01 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT1 DD DSN=IS198.TEST.INPUT,DISP=SHR
//SYSUT2 DD DSN=IS198.TEST.OUTPUT,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// SPACE=(CYL,(40,5),RLSE),
// DCB=(LRECL=115,BLKSIZE=0),
// DATACLAS=SEQFB
//SYSIN DD DUMMY
Edited in later
Oh yes that was the one, but I must say I didnt remember much about it, considering I must have typed up many thousands (perhaps 10's of thousands) of those cards while I was a mainframe operator. Ah the good old bad old days of computing when Microsoft was only a nightmare and not a recurring reality.
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]]>Wow! Did you know JCL? I remember hearing "if you want to program in JCL, find something already written and copy it"
Ha ha ha ! I like the JCL comment - Only the other day I was remembering what a hassle JCL was when all the batch jobs had to be rescheduled because of JCL errors etc. Also I started at the age of 16 and they used to make me type up a lot of the JCL cards, (and they wonder why ever since then I've had a bored expression on my face!) Dont remember a single thing about JCL in detail.
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]]>Wow! Did you know JCL? I remember hearing "if you want to program in JCL, find something already written and copy it"
Oh, and all views are welcome, no elitism here, you just have to put up with counter-arguments!
I have gotten used to counter-arguments.
But the law of numbers has cracks in it.
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