On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 06:49 PM, Jay Maynard wrote:
This looks like it was set up for a JES2 XBATCH initiator.
The WATFIV module both compiles and executes Fortran programs, submitted as jobs in a "card" deck. That's the way I remember it from my university days. At the time, it was used in the engineering school as a tool to learn structured programming. The way I see it (kind of), WATFIV is to Fortran what ASSIST is to Assembler. There is a cataloged procedure for WATFIV on MVS and the WATFIV EXEC mainly reproduces it. I never saw WATFIV being used in "production" outside the academic world.
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To answer Dave's question, I would not like the alternate syntax and I would stick to the original EXEC. In fact, remembering how I used WATFIV in my university days (that is to say in batch on MVS), I wrote myself a small EXEC which I placed on the CMSBATCH 192 minidisk, so I can submit WATFIV jobs to the CMSBATCH virtual machine, instead of running them interactive in CMS. Of course, this is just my personal taste. :-)
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Cheers,
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Rene FERLAND, Montreal
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