I hate that URL mangling! https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa500/bpxbatr.htm
IBM Knowledge Center Home -> z/OS 2.1.0 -> z/OS UNIX System Services -> z/OS UNIX System Services User's Guide -> The z/OS shells -> Using z/OS UNIX from batch, TSO/E, and ISPF -> The BPXBATCH utility -> Passing parameter data to BPXBATCH -> Guidelines for defining STDPARM -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 11:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: USS: su: User ID "SH" does not exist On Fri, 15 May 2020 13:35:59 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >"For in-stream data sets: with the SH option, trailing blanks are not >truncated. Records in in-stream data sets are concatenated with blanks as >separator characters, and the string remaining after the SH token is passed as >a single argument to a /bin/sh -c command. For the PGM option, the string is >divided not only at line boundaries but also at horizontal white space within >a line. " > Where did you find that (citation needed)? I find only roughly similar for STDPARM in: z/OS Version 2 Release 4 UNIX System Services Command Reference IBM SA23-2280-40 >Which doesn't make a lot of sense. If it is not taken as a single parameter >for other file types, why not? > There appears to be a woeful lack of communication among designers, coders, and tech writers. Almost more than can be fixed by RCF. Examples needed for Cartesian product of: {SH|PGM} {FB|VB} {PATH|DSN|SYSIN} {single|multiple commands} -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
