"Joe Zitzelberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On May 23, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: > > > "Joe Zitzelberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >> On May 23, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > >> > >> > >> All I'm saying is that it takes two objects to create this error. > >> Your > >> production program must do things incorrectly today AND your > >> production > >> JCL must change. If it works today, then only a change to one of > >> these > >> two (hopefully) controlled objects can break it. > >> > >> Unless you just let your production JCL be changed willy-nilly you are > >> at no risk of exposure. > >> > > > > You don't have to change the JCL to change the PARM if it is specified > > by > > the operator on the Start-command, or is built from symbolics. > > > > S TOOL,PARM='A NUMBER OF COMMANDS AND PARAMETER GIVEN TO THE TOOL' > > > > //T EXEC PGM=TOOL,PARM='&VALUE1,&VALUE2,&VALUE3' > > > > I thought one of the concurrent complaints about start was that it > currently only accepts 61-chars. I might have misunderstood that. > > But you cannot change you symbolics without a change to the JCL stream, > be it a SET statement in an INCLUDE member or a whatever.
You can, if the INCLUDEd SET statements are changed externally on a regular, production-schedule driven basis. We do this to provide all sorts of date variables to our production JCL. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
