Good morning IBM-MAIN, a new day is dawning on me after one of those o-dark-thirty nights.
I hope some of you far west are still awake and some of you far east already 8^) Am having trouble with OPC. Having no access whatsoever to OPC and - worse - almost zero knowledge of the product here's what I wanted to solve: OPC submits a Job which basically is nothing but a job card, followed by a JCLLIB statement and ends with an INCLUDE statement. This had to be modified such that two OPC statements (please no nitpicking about the correct names here) had to be prepended. Namely a OPC SCAN statement and a OPC SETFORM statement defining a variable OCDATE. As I have never worked with OPC nor setup jobs that were submitted by OPC I simply added variable &OCDATE at the relevant places in the INCLUDE member. When I said that I would like to verify this (as I recall e.g. the simulation feature of Control-M) I was told that this was either not possible or that they simply wouldn't know how. (This is a long-distance non-sysprog consulting situation). So I got up at three o'clock in the morning just to see the job fail immediately with an "incorrect use of ampersand" message. To recap OPC Job //*%OPC SCAN //*%OPC SETFORM OCDATE=(CCYYDDD) // job card // JCLLIB ORDER=(several_libs) // INCLUDE MEMBER=inc_mbr Include Member // EXEC whatsoever //DD1 DD DSN=A.B.C.D&OCDATE This is the syntax I was given (albeit the sample was a job without INCLUDE). Hhhmm, after awhile I thought "O.k., since I have to stick to the INCLUDE (ie. a FETCH member solution is not desirable) why not SET a JCL variable in the "job" member and use that variable instead in the INCLUDE member. This should bypass any problems OPC might have in combination with the INCLUDE technique." Like: OPC Job //*%OPC SCAN //*%OPC SETFORM OCDATE=(CCYYDDD) // job card // SET MYDATE=&OCDATE // JCLLIB ORDER=(several_libs) // INCLUDE MEMBER= Include Member // EXEC whatsoever //DD1 DD DSN=A.B.C.D&MYDATE I emailed this to the operators. They implemented it and much to my surprise this also failed with "incorrect use of ampersand". Now the real (for me) questions are: (1) How do I run a simulation in OPC? (2) How do I get the OPC (or SET) variable resolved in the included JCL? Any and all suggestions are welcome Robert Bardos Ansys AG, Zürich, Switzerland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
