Are JCL questions on topic here?

My newsserver doesn't seem to carry a group "comp.lang.jcl", nor any
newsgroup with the substring "jcl" in it, apparently. I've seen JCL
mentioned in passing a couple of times in this newsgroup, so I wondered if
JCL questions would be on topic here, or if anyone knew of a better
newsgroup to direct such questions to.

- Oliver

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:12:49 -0400, "Oliver Wong"
<owong@castortech.com> wrote:

>    My newsserver doesn't seem to carry a group "comp.lang.jcl", nor any
>newsgroup with the substring "jcl" in it, apparently. I've seen JCL
>mentioned in passing a couple of times in this newsgroup, so I wondered if
>JCL questions would be on topic here, or if anyone knew of a better
>newsgroup to direct such questions to.
>
>    - Oliver
>

The following list server is copied to bit.listserv.ibm-main.   What I
do is subscribe to the newsgroup and to the list server both.  When I
subscribed to the list server, I told it to not send me e-mail, and
when I set up my news reader, I told it to reply to the list server
e-mail address instead of to the newsgroup.   That way, everybody gets
a copy of my message.



For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to listserv@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Oliver,
Like Howard, I participate in "IBM-MAIN" -- but we also get occasional JCL
questions on this list.  IBM-MAIN tends to be "systems programmers".  If you
have relatively simple JCL questions, you might want to start here (or I mig
ht
be able to help you off-line).  Also, depending on what you are doing, you
should know that z/OS (MVS) JCL is different from VSE JCL.  (Frank could hel
p
you with the latter).

Finally, if you need access to the online books (reference and programming
guides) we can help you with that as well.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:12:49 -0400, "Oliver Wong"
> <owong@castortech.com> wrote:
> 
>
> The following list server is copied to bit.listserv.ibm-main.   What I
> do is subscribe to the newsgroup and to the list server both.  When I
> subscribed to the list server, I told it to not send me e-mail, and
> when I set up my news reader, I told it to reply to the list server
> e-mail address instead of to the newsgroup.   That way, everybody gets
> a copy of my message.
>
>
>
> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
> send email to listserv@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
> Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com> wrote in message
news:wQBJh.41930$df3.1045921@wagner.videotron.net...
>    My newsserver doesn't seem to carry a group "comp.lang.jcl", nor any
> newsgroup with the substring "jcl" in it, apparently. I've seen JCL
> mentioned in passing a couple of times in this newsgroup, so I wondered if
> JCL questions would be on topic here, or if anyone knew of a better
> newsgroup to direct such questions to.
>
>    - Oliver
>

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