CL: the language that holds the rest together
Not a second-class language: it launches the batch work, handles the errors and talks to the system. And it is the one nobody was ever properly taught.
Articles tagged #cl — 6 results
Scheduling a job for the last day of the month
Without working out how many days the month has, and without getting leap years wrong.
Finding and releasing held schedule entries
The number one cause of "it did not run last night", and how to notice before it happens.
Fixing the library list of a scheduled job
"It works for me" and at night it does not: it is almost always the library list, not the program.
Exporting a file to CSV on the IFS
With the right delimiter and the right encoding, so Excel does not show odd characters.
Sending mail from a CL program
The shortest command to notify someone when a batch finishes, with no API and nothing to install.