Nobody knows, or is this too obvious a question to warrant an answer? Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: System symbols in dynamic allocation Do the same restrictions on static system symbols exist for dynamic allocation as exist for JCL in the same environment -- in other words, in DSN allocation in a job you can use &SYSUID but not &SYSNAME? That seems to be what I am seeing but I don't see that restriction explicitly in the Authorized Assembler Services Guide. It seems to imply a lack of restrictions: "You can use system symbols to represent data set names, member names, and path names in text units." It refers you over to Initialization and Tuning and the restriction for dynamic allocation may be stated there but I have not found it. Would I be correct in inferring then that you could use &SYSNAME in dynamic allocation from within a started task? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
