On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:20:10 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:

>Wayne Driscoll wrote:
>> //  SET LVL=PROD
>> //  INCLUDE JLSTART
>> //  INCLUDE &LVL.JOBL
>>
>> In member JLSTART you would have
>>
>> //JOBLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.EMPTY.LOADLIB
>>
Sigh.  The ugly boundary condition problem.  Is SYS1.EMPTY.LOADLIB
standard, or did you invent it?  Is there a corresponding
EMPTY.MACLIB for the same purpose?

>> You could then have a PRODJOBL member with the "standard" files.
>>
>> Developers could then create members with their initials, ie WDJOBL that
>> contain their test libraries, and a last line of
>>
>> //  INCLUDE PRODJOBL
>>
>> So all that would need to change is the SET statement.
>
And the same qualifier could be embedded in other data set names.

>We do a lot of that in our set up for our courses.
>Because we never know in advance the naming conventions
>used by the installation where we are teaching, we
>send some JCL in advance; by changing SET values in
>just one or two members, all our class compile, bind,
>and test JCL will work for each student. It's really
>quite a nifty facility.

-- gil

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