On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 23:01:27 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: >DSN=&TEMPDSN could be treated as an exception. Any other undefined symbols >could be identified and flagged as an error. > That profits little: o You need more than one. A programmer may have several temp DSNs active in a step. So, &TMPDS01, &TMPDS02, ..., &TMPDS99 might suffice. o But you're requiring the user to change JCL to use the special form. The user might as well change to &&. o You're introducing reserved symbols, undesirable when needless.
I prefer mnemonics such as &&SYSEXEC for a library created with IEBGENER from instream and used in a later IRXJCL step. Don't prolong peeling the Band-Aid. "If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
