Modification Log: Posted the initial version, 29 Oct, 2017
Re: Moderator's Interview Series: Akatsukami.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:23 am
by Mainframe Bear
Anuj Dhawan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:27 pmI’ve used “Akatsukami” as my on-line identity for over twenty years. It means “incarnate deity” in Japanese
Why did you cho0se this name? And why Japanese?
Re: Moderator's Interview Series: Akatsukami.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:25 am
by Mainframe Bear
Anuj Dhawan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:27 pmA major change, IMNSHO, came in with z/OS 1.13. You’ll recall, I’m sure, the constant litany of questions by newbie software engineers of, “How do I change the completion code of a job?”, “How do I use symbolics in in-stream data?”, and others to which the answer was, “You can’t; deal with it”. With V1.13, IBM finally broke down and began making those things possible.
Two other big things over the years were the introduction of the IF-THEN-ELSE construct in JCL, much more flexible and understandable than the COND parameter, and the evolution of DFSORT from a sort utility to a powerful and sophisticated data handling environment. You still can’t do everything with DFSORT, but you can do a lot more than when I was a student
Hi,
Can you please show an example of how to use symbolic in in-stream data?
Re: Moderator's Interview Series: Akatsukami.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:02 pm
by nicc
Not relevant in this forum. Go away and get the manual, read it, set up some test data and start playing and understanding. If you do not do it yourself you will not understand it.