In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/03/2008
   at 08:11 AM, Fred van der Windt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>       Is is possible to somehow retrieve the JCL procedure parameters and
>their values in a program that's invoked in that procedure?

Yes, but it's not for the faint of heart. Baically you have to scan all of
the JCL yourself.

>This could be fixed if the values wouldn't have to be passed via the
>PARM= parameter because the utility could somehow get directly to the
>current JCL parameters and their values....

It would be less work to change the utility to read additional key=value
pairs from an optional control file.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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