> Another thing ... Do you remember IPOUPDTE? "The utility you are about to see is true; the name has been changed to protect the innocent." - Jack Webb, Dragnet.
Isn't it still there with CPP instead of IPO? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of David Spiegel [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2023 5:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Is SMP/E needed for installs? Hi Phil, I beg to differ. You can use SET at the top of every Job to set ALL variables (as my previous email said). Can you please give me an example of what you're saying. Another thing ... Do you remember IPOUPDTE? (It was a batch "editor" to change all of the HLQ from ABC to DEF. This could be used instead of the SET.) Regards, David On 2023-08-24 17:02, Phil Smith III wrote: > Gil wrote: >> I introduced "symbols". Shmuel may have reintroduced it. Are we thinking >> of the same >> JCL SET? Where is its behavior inconsistent? > It's not SET that's inconsistent, it's support for it in SMP/E. There are > places in SMP/E jobs that can't use symbols. So you can't just have a chunk > at the top that job where you fill in values-you have to tour the job and fix > it 27 times (OK, not 27, that's just a number I made up). > > When I deliver the product to the customers, I'd like them to be able to just > change stuff in ONE place per job. Otherwise they can (AND DO) miss a few, > leading to hilarity. > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
