Re: Duplicate temporary dataset names

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/07/2008
   at 09:05 AM, "Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>>//SYSEXEC  DD  DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=&&amp;SYSEXEC

>Trying the &amp;, I get:
>       IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER a ON THE DD STATEMENT
>       IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER m ON THE DD STATEMENT
>       IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER p ON THE DD STATEMENT
>       IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER ; ON THE DD STATEMENT

>What's the secret here?

Use HTML syntax for HTML and JCL syntax for JCL. That '&amp;' is HTML
syntax and has no place in JCL. Use

//SYSEXEC  DD  DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=&&SYSEXEC

or

//SYSEXEC  DD  DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=&SYSEXEC
 
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