> Oh, drudge away! (Or, even "dredge" if you prefer.)
>
> I wouldn't mind changing my JCL to enable this. A couple
> possibilities:
>
> o Support for symbol substitution in SYSIN data sets, so
> one might code:
>
> //STDPARM DD *,SYMBOLS=YES
> FOO=&FOO
> BAR=&BAR
> ...
>
> (wouldn't you like to be able to substitute JCL symbols
> in STDIN for COZBATCH?)
>
> o Or support in JCL to pass these in the second, third, ...
> arguments as in CALL (and without the 100-character limit):
>
> //STEP EXEC PGM=MYPROG,PARM=(LIST,XREF),
> // ALTPARM=('alternate DDNAME list','FOO=&FOO','BAR=&BAR',...)
>
> -- gil
Or how about just:
// IF ('&FOO' EQ 'FOO') THEN
// ...
// ENDIF
This facility would help us a *lot*.
Allen
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