Refering to HP, DEC, Sperry, WANG, Burroughs, Honeywell, NCR, DataGeneral, CDC Prime, and I know I missed a few. Some form of job control was common on all the mini-mainframes of the 1970's and 1980's. My favourite, the MPE/V & MPE/iX operating systems that run on the HP3000 also have a form of JCL, used in both batch & interactive command-line processing. On 07/30/2015 05:53 AM, Dave Stratford wrote: > J. Leslie Turriff wrote: >> JCL (Job Control Language) is a sort of scripting tool for running jobs >> in >> the batch-oriented z/OS and z/VSE operating systems. I don't believe >> there >> are any other OSes that use such a concept (the only others I've seen were >> on >> NCR's Century and Criterion OSes). > ICL's VME operting system does. Called SCL rather than JCL, but the > concept is the same. SCL is a compiled HLL in it's own right designed to > link together the cobol appication code and setting up the files etc. It > can also be used from the command line. > > Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-cobol-list mailing list open-cobol-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-cobol-list
