[lokedhs]

Thanks for the information. I assume actual mainframe developers do these things. But can you do that from the environment provided to me you by master the mainframe?

On the MVS 3.8j side, I can submit a job directly via the virtual card reader and then read the results directly from the printer and feed it into Emacs. That's the most efficient way to work with Hercules but you'll be stuck with a very old version of Cobol.