On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:21:52 +0000, Billy Ashton wrote:
>Hey folks! I have a vendor product program that looks for different
>DDnames depending on the control statements passed into the program. Is
>there any way to define a dynamic DD statement using JCL symbols? For
>example, I would love to have //TB&tno.DAT to correspond to TB01DAT,
>TB14DAT, or TB67DAT if I use SET TNO=01 or 14 or 67.
>
ITYM "//TB&tno..DAT"
>Is such a thing possible? I tried using an instream proc definition and
>INCLUDE MEMBER= that proc name, but that failed, and of course, I tried
>the straight up JCL as above, and it failed.
>
But to no avail. From somewhere in the JCL Ref.:
4. Do not use symbols to change the identifier field, name field, or
operation field of a JCL statement.
>What do you all think?
>
o ObEmerson
o Doesn't this contravene Peter R's strict assertion that IBM documentation
does *not* attempt to document what is *not* supported.
-- gil
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