I have set up a script with echo "$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7" echo "all $*" and //COLWEB PROC ACTION='start' // EXPORT SYMLIST=* // SET T2='T2T2' //IHS EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=0M,PARMDD=PARMDD //PARMDD DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY SH /u/mqweb3/conf/ccc.sh aa &T2 x &ACTION. y &ACTION z /* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=H //STDERR DD SYSOUT=H //STDENV DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USER.Z24C.PROCLIB(HTTPENV)
this gives aa T2T2 x all aa T2T2 x so &action,&action>.< and any text after the &ACTION. are ignored. Also the y and Z are not displayed... so &action is not just being replaced with blanks .. but is saying "end of parsing" it is a good little problem... hidden depths. Colin On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 20:18, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > In the JCL before he tried PARMDD I saw "&ACTION" followed by a letter; > did he doe the same thiong with PARMDD or did he have a period in between? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 2:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Trying to use long parm= in started task > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 18:51:57 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >It's not easy to demo the OP's JCL without knowing what it is. At this > point I don't know whether "&ACTION" appeared after PARMDD and I don't know > whether it was followed with a period. > > > The period should be unnecessary if &ACTION is sufficiently delimited > lexically. > > I believe the OP stated (and you quoted) that neither SET nor EXPORT > SYMLIST=* > satisfied the need for a reference to an argument. This is stupidity or > indolence of > the developers. The arguments of SET, EXPORT, and the instream text are > available > to the reader/converter to verify that the arguments are referenced. > > (I suspect that any APAR will be closed PRS. Perhaps USER.) > > > >> > On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 8:27 AM Colin Paice wrote: > >> > > ... > >> > > 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='' // SET D1='&DIR' // SET > >> > > T2='&T' * > >> > > //IHS EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=0M > >> > > //STDIN DD *,*SYMBOLS=EXECSYS * > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > *&D1/bin/apachectl -k &A1 -f &&ACTIONCONF -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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
