Yes, I did mean that. My bad for sending a note late at night when I'm tired. Lennie
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 18 October 2023 23:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Programatically setting JCL symbols On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:53:05 +0100, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: >On the other hand they can be passed to another job via the internal reader >specified with the SYMBOLS parameter. >For example, >//INTRDR DD *,SYMLIST=* >It could make sense in this instance. > ITYM: // EXPORT SYMLIST=* ... //INTRDR DD SYSOUT=(,INTRDR),SYMBOLS=JCLONLY It's possible the OP wants to pass values between steps. The guaranteed way to do that is with a temporary data set. There was s discussion here lately of environment variables. Questions I never saw clearly answered: o Are environment variables available to any program, regardless of language? o Do they require LE or C RTL? o Do they endure from step to step? o Are they rooted with WXTRN environ and structured as in POSIX? -- 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
