Kolusu, Thanks for the suggestion. I did check that //SYSUT1 card in each step do not have extra blanks. They all looks correct and the same for all steps.
Are you running on z/OS 2.3 or higher? JES2, I assume? Just looking for a baseline, if you're not seeing the issue. Thanks, James -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Interesting behavior - instream variable sub James, Not seeing the lost symbol behavior, For all the steps missing symbol substitution, may be you have a SPACE after DD * which would treat the rest of the content as comments. so ,SYMBOLS=EXECSYS is treated as a comment. //SYSUT1 DD * ,SYMBOLS=EXECSYS it should be //SYSUT1 DD *,SYMBOLS=EXECSYS One way to check is to issue the command HILITE JCL and it would show the comments in a different color Kolusu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
