On 13 May 2005 06:06:09 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Taddei, Cathy
>>
>> I agree with Gil and Charles. IMO, a DD statement would be pointless.
>> If a programmer wanted to receive a parm via DD, they could have done
>> it already. One of the advantages of PARM= is that you can stick it
>> in a proc, where DD * will not work.
>
>//A PROC
>//.....
>//SYSIN DD DDNAME=SYSIN
>// PEND
>//BB EXEC A
>//.....
>//BB.SYSIN DD *
>..
>..
>/*
>
>Works here....
I think the type of situation that Cathy is referring to would be
something like:
//A PROC
//.....
//SYSIN DD *
[control cards embedded directly in the PROC]
/*
// PEND
This has always been one of my pet JCL annoyances; the inability to embed
a sysin dataset *within* a proc means that I need to maintain *two* files:
the PROC itself AND the control file.
(Disclaimer: I have not tried to create a proc like the example shown
above in quite a few years; I don't know for a fact that current versions
of z/OS won't accept such JCL.)
Eric
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