R.Skorupka wrote: >I dare to disagree. Completely.
Feel free to do that. Search the archives. My reply is for those who don't have those automation software. >1. ControlM (and others) did that despite of the reasons above. Agreed. I'm indeed using those %%variables to generate datasets and reports for my RACF audit reports. Can't already live without those %%variables. :-D >2. Scope of the facilities offered by %%variables is much wider than system >variables which are available in STC, but not in batch. Some of the facilities >are completely unrelated to the considerations above. >3. ControlM do offer rich set of date&time variables and functions, so you >have ordering date, execution date etc. Anything you want. With no ambiguity. Here I agree with you... ;-D But not every one has that luxury. This is why this thread originally started. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

