John, In this example, why not just use a temporary MVS dataset with DISP=PASS into the Unix step?
Then use: fromdsn //DD:MYTEMP | process or: cp //DD:MYTEMP /dev/fd1 | process Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:28 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just ran into a situation where I could really use some new "system > symbols" in JCL. In a batch job, we can basically only use &SYSUID in the > JCL. I could use two more, and I don't think that they would introduce any > problems. They would be &SYSJOBNA which would be the job name, and > &SYSJOBNU > which would be the "job number" (like JOB12345). My basic use for these > would be an attempt to have an "almost unique" dataset name or UNIX PATH > name generated with these values. I do some really weird stuff (as is likely > already known). My application in this one case was for something like: > > //LISTCAT EXEC PGM=IDCAMS > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* > //SYSIN DD * > LISTC LVL(some.qual) ALL OUTFILE(O) > //O DD PATH='/u/myid/sysout/&SYSJOBNA..&SYSJOBNU', > // PATHDISP=(KEEP,KEEP), > // FILEDATA=TEXT, > // PATHMODE=(SIRUSR,SIWUSR), > // PATHOPTS=(OCREAT,OTRUNC,OWRONLY) > //* > //PROCESS EXEC COZBATCH, > // PARM='/jobname=&SYSJOBNA jobnumber=&SYSJOBNU' > //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* > //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* > //STDIN DD * > . /etc/profile > . ~/.profile > cd ~/myid/sysout > process <${jobname}.${jobnumber} > /* > // > > The "process" was actually a Perl script which did some messaging of the > LISTCAT output for me. > > In any case, does this sound reasonable? Am I overlooking a case where > either of these system symbols could be "indeterminate"? The only one that I > can think of is a case where a job is NJE transmitted to another site and > receives a different job number. In that case, I think the job number should > be the job number at the execution site. > > -- > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
