You are right...It would be VERY useful. I'm surprised that IBM can't come up with a way to handle system symbols (Perhaps via the SET parameter). Something like:
// SET &DATE=SYSSYMBOL(&LDATE) Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Brock Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Date & Time in JCL <deadhorsebeat> .. . . and none of those choices are really good, at least for a non-sysprog. I know the reasoning behind not having it as a batch JCL, but it seems a case of "you might burn yourself, so you can't do it." There's a reason it comes up frequently; many people would find it useful. </deadhorsebeat> Jon This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
