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Sat Apr 24 19:38:43 1982
IBM software advances
With the recent advances in IBM hardware (the 4300 series,
the Personal Computer), one wonders why there have not been
corresponding advances in JCL.  Dake the DISP parameter for
instance.  For years we've had only three choices: NEW, OLD,
and MOD.  To break from this tedium, these new options have
been proposed:

DISP=soap               cleans up your output
DISP=dollar             would return 8 bits
DISP=billygraham        saves your dataset
DISP=rosemarywoods      puts an 18-block gap in your dataset
DISP=dracula            yields an extra byte in each record
DISP=petergraves        causes tapes to self-destruct in 5 seconds
DISP=howardhughes       gives 9 copies of your dataset, all different
DISP=J&B                uses scotch tape
DISP=ali                would punch out your dataset
DISP=postoffice         gives you your output a month late
DISP=wrigleys           chews up your disk pack
DISP=malignant          gives you terminal output
DISP=oldmacdonald       would give you EIE I/O
DISP=invert             allows you to do O/I
DISP=tidybowl           flushes your buffers

               --plagiarized from ACM/SIGSOFT, April 1981

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