Jerry Fochtman writes:
> Ah....least we forget the ':DATA/:EOD' cards as a means of reading into
> the input queue a deck of data cards and giving the resulting file a name.
> A program could then open the named file from the card reader device and
> read it, consuming the file as it went.  Sorta like today's message file.

Card readers are long gone, but :DATA/:EOD lives on.  You can :STREAM these
data files to create input spoolfiles that can be read from subsequent
jobs or sessions via DEV=JOBTAPE.

:HELP DATA,ALL for details.

I just tested this successfully on 6.0.
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