I have JCL that includes the following sequence // SET CPPOBJ='/u/userid/CertRept/Obj/' ... // SET SHELL1B='cd &CPPOBJ' ... //BPXARCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,COND=(4,LT), // PARM='SH&B&SHELL1B;...
The BPXBATCH cd fails because &SHELL1B has the literal value cd &CPPOBJ -- in other words, the path name was not substituted for the symbol name &CPPOBJ. Is there any way to set a symbol to a string that includes the value of a SET symbol? If not, yeah, I can think of several possible workarounds but this seems like a pretty gigantic shortcoming to me. The exclamation "Really?" comes to mind. I see an IBM-MAIN post by the sorely missed @Peter Relson from Dec 4, 2021, at 10:05 AM with a subject of "Re: Trying to use long parm= in started task" that addresses this issue but I don't see a resolution. Is there one? Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
