In <[email protected]>, on
04/09/2013
   at 09:21 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>I may have been elliptical.  I meant to ask whether symbol
>substitution is performed if the data set referenced by the PARMDD
>parameter on the EXEC statement  is other than an instream data set
>and contains substitutable symbols such as "&SYSUID".

I would hope not, or at least not without an explicit request to do
so.

>I was (mis-)led to that assumption by the frequent discussion in
>these lists of the unavailability of JCL symbols to the program
>being run. 

The discussion of the new support included exporting symbols to the
execution environment.

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