The real problem is pretty much solved but answering your questions // SET B=' '
My bad omitting that from the statement of the problem. (B stands for Blank.) I no longer have any of the failed jobs but the symbol substitution messages showed that nothing was substituted, so to speak. They show a literal &CPPOBJ in the result string. WAD Charles On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:29:52 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:39:24 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: > >>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;... >> >What's the value of '&B'? > >What do symbol SUBSTITUTION messages snow if enabled? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
