EasyProclib did DD concatenations. IBM did a new //name JCLLIB ORDER=(dsn,dsn,,) JCL statement. I am only guessing that this was so that it was sufficiently different from the existing ISV product
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Tom Brennan > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2023 10:40 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is SMP/E needed for installs? > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > I remember that product! But I thought it worked with a DD, something > like: //PROCLIB DD DSN=TED013.PROCLIB,DISP=SHR > > When JCLLIB came out, we dropped the product and wrote some code in JES2 > exit 4 to convert PROCLIB to JCLLIB so users didn't have to change their > JCL. > > I thought ORDER= was done because you can code more than one dataset. > > On 8/31/2023 10:27 AM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > In part because that was how the EasyProclib (owned by CA at the > time)product worked. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > >> Behalf Of Pommier, Rex > >> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2023 10:20 AM > >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is SMP/E needed for installs? > >> > >> [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > >> > >> Yeah, I don't understand why IBM didn't just use DD card syntax instead of > >> coming up with this. > >> > >> Rex > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > >> Behalf Of Phil Smith III > >> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2023 12:01 PM > >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Is SMP/E needed for installs? > >> > >> Billy Ashton wrote: > >> > >>> If you want to INCLUDE a member, this is like a PROC, so you need to > >> > >>> have SETS in a system-defined proclib or you have to add something like > >> > >>> // JCLLIB ORDER=PHS.PDS.JCL840 > >> > >> > >> > >> You've got me to spot what I'd just stupidly missed: I had taken the JCLLIB > to > >> be a DD, and it's not: it's a whole new statement. If I change it to: > >> > >> // JCLLIB ORDER=PHS.PDS.JCL840 > >> > >> > >> > >> It works. Well, it fails later, but the JCL works! Thanks. I knew it was > something > >> dumb. > >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to > >> lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from > >> disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is > >> not > the > >> intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > >> message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > disclosure, > >> distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance > >> on it, > is > >> strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this > >> communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this > >> message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or > hard > >> copy format. Thank you. > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
