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- From: pgilmart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: ESA 4.2 JES2 Routing Restriction
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.080538.17821@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 08:05:38 GMT
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- > As far as fixing JES2 to allow it, I suspect
- > that it would be less work if you instead change the VM ids so they
- > don't contain dashes. Remember that many JES2 commands take ranges,
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- Can you say 'quotation marks'? JCL is particularly "anal retentive" in
- not allowing arbitrary quoted strings in all non-keyword contexts. Cases
- in point (if I remember): Room number on JOB card; Forms id on DD
- statement; User ID on DEST/ROUTE parameter.
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- MVS should eschew chauvinism and not enforce syntactic restrictions on
- values whose semantics are (potentially) realized on non-MVS hosts.
-
- BTW, how can one meaningfully use a range of userids? Is there some
- operator command which takes all jobs are in the range of (e.g)
- Gilmartin-Woren (oops. typo) as the userid and purges them?
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