On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 00:36:54 -0600, Tom Wasik wrote:

>If you are interested, there is some additional detail on the 2.1 JES2 JCL 
>changes in my SHARE pitch from this week:
>http://share.confex.com/share/120/webprogram/Handout/Session13029/JES2%20Product%20Update%20and%20Latest%20Status.pdf
> 
Mentions:

o System Symbol Substitution in BATCH Jobs
• Any system symbol (IEASYMxx) can be referred to in JCL
• JOBLCASS SYSSYM=ALLOW|DISALLOW option 
• Substitution occurs at conversion time

At last?

o Symbolic Substitution in Instream Data Sets
•       SYMBOLS= keyword on DD DATA or DD * JCL
SYMBOLS=[ ( ] JCLONLY | EXECSYS | CNVTSYS [ , DDname])
•       Substitution as records are read by application

May I assume this means the value of symbols in the context of
the EXEC statement?

•       Blank elimination to try to make things fit •   Overflow if possible, 
I/O error if not

Embedded blanks, or only trailing?
Will this affect the LRECL of a RECFM=VB instream data set?

o Passing Symbols on INTRDR
• SYMLIST= keyword identifies symbols to pass

Will this be a keyword supported by TSO ALLOCATE and BPXWDYN,
presumably as a TU for SVC 99?

No mention of long PARM or PARMDD?

Thanks,
gil

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