John, Actually, it is documented to work that way.
According to the JCL reference, if the same symbolic keyword is present multiple time, the value used is that provided by the first occurrence. Checking back through some old manuals, this has been the case since at least OS/360 r21.7. John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Amusing JCL Oddity One would think that the following would generate a JCL error. Well, not on my system (zOS 1.08). Takes the first values for SP1 & SP2. Go figure //ALLOC EXEC PROC=A#,SP1=100,SP2=100, // HLVL=USS,MLVL=SMPNTS,LLVL=ZOS108,SP1=3000,SP2=0500,V= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
