Common parse routine with DD statement labels? Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: JCL INCLUDE statement name field On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 11:38:31 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >> What's the 8-character prefix used for? > >At least one use is in overriding a DD in a step in a cataloged procedure. > >//COMPILE.SYSIN DD ... > >Does that make any sense for INCLUDE? I would guess that it does, but I am not >perfectly familiar with INCLUDE and too lazy to look it up. > TFM states explicitly for IF, EXEC, INCLUDE, (others?) that they do _not_ serve that function. -- 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
