On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:39:48 -0500, Dave Salt <[email protected]> wrote:
>The only messy part might be ensuring the step names are unique throughout
the job, but other than that I think this might be the best solution?

And that temporary dsnames don't conflict (e.g., DSN=&TEMP with
DISP=(NEW,PASS)), and that you don't have more than 255 steps (I think
that's still the limit, but I haven't checked recently), and that condition
code checking doesn't cause skipping of later steps that would not have
happened if they were separate jobs.

If an automated process is doing the submission, why couldn't it build a
nested job stream.  It would read the first job, and add a step to submit
the second.  While building the SYSIN file containing the 2nd job, it could
add a step to submit the 3rd.  While building that SYSIN, it could add a
step to submit the 4th, etc.

You don't change the real JCL, which allows the user to submit manually
whatever/whenever he wants.

-- 
  Walt

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