+1 Every other programming and similar language that I know treats unreferenced symbols as either a non-event or a warning.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 7:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Trying to use long parm= in started task On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:35:27 +0000, Colin Paice wrote: >I tried that ... >I get >IEFC657I THE SYMBOL ACTION WAS NOT USED... >Where action is one of the procedure parameters. > o // SET should suffice to establish use. If not, it should be APARable. o // SET should suffice to establish use. If not, it should be APARable. IEFC657I is bogus. It should be an error to use a symbol without defining it, not to define a symbol without using it. IBM needs to get its act together and understand customers' needs. >and the procedure parm was not passed through into the parmsdd, symbols I >create are... procedure parms are not > >hence my convoluted solution using intermediate symbols and some dummy >iefbr14 steps to use the procedure parms. >> > On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 8:27 AM Colin Paice wrote: >> > > >> > > I want to use a started task to start my web browser, but the size >> > > of the parameters exceeds the 100 char limit for parm= >> > > >> > > Is there a nice way of passing the data? >> > > >> > > Ive tried using symbols, and passing them in to an instream dataset, >> > > with SYMBOLS=.... >> > > I then need dummy steps to actually use the parameters, otherwise >> > > you get IEFC657I THE SYMBOL ACTION WAS NOT USED >> > > >> > > One attempt is below. >> > > >> > > //COLWEB PROC ACTION='start', >> > > // DIR='/usr/lpp/ihsa_zos', >> > > // CONF='/u/mqweb3/conf/httpd.conf', >> > > // T='-t -DDUMP_CONFIG' >> > > //*--------------------------------------------------------- >> > > >> > > *// EXPORT SYMLIST=* // SET A1='&ACTION' // SET D1='&DIR' // SET >> > > T2='&T' * >> > > //IHS EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=0M >> > > //STDIN DD *,*SYMBOLS=EXECSYS * >> > > >> > > *&D1/bin/apachectl -k &A1 -f &CONF -DNO_DETACH &T2 * >> > > *blah blah blah* >> > > /* >> > > //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=H >> > > //STDERR DD SYSOUT=H >> > > //STDENV DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USER.Z24C.PROCLIB(HTTPENV) >> > > >> > > >> > > *//DUMMY EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,REGION=0M, // PARM='&ACTION &DIR &CONF' * >> > > >> > > *//DUMMY2 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,REGION=0M, // PARM='&T' * >> > > // PEND -- 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
