In a current thread on IBM-MAIN, the OP wants to "Convert a Parm
into a control card". Various answers have been tendered, Rexx,
DFSORT, ..., and mine in Assembler:
//STEP EXEC PGM=ASMA90, (HLASM)
// PARM='SYSPARM(Isn''t &SYSUID the &&SYSUID?)'
//SYSLIN DD SYSOUT=B
//SYSIN DD *
&P SETC DOUBLE('&SYSPARM')
PUNCH '&P'
END
//*
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=(,)
//SYSTERM DD SYSOUT=(,)
Which works. The OP's constraints seem to include Batch on an OS
level that doesn't provide PARMDD or SYSIN SYMBOLS=, so AREAD probably
isn't helpful. I suspect my suggestion fails if the needed string
contains arbitrary apostrophes, ampersands, and parentheses, possibly
unmatched. Are there alternatives? Perhaps HLASM isn't a solution.
-- gil
