Tim, This has been discussed at great length in the archives in the past.
I think the complexity of the issue eludes those whose world is composed of a single LPAR running z/OS. The considerations ar primarily to do with when and where the symbols are resolved. Do you resolve them on the system doing the JCL conversion? On the system running the job (possibly two different LPARs in a Parallel Sysplex). For things like time and date do you resolve them to when the job was hit the system, or when the job actually executed. Consider TYPRUN=HOLD on the job card. Alan I know I can't do it (having read the manual and some SHARE presentations), but can someone clue me in about why I can use static system symbols such as &SYSNAME in started task JCL but not regular batch JCL? I presume, since they are started tasks, that these variables are available to my job scheduler (currently Beta-42, possibly CA-7 in the future) - so, are they exposed as variables you can substitute? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
