In the JCLIN?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
David Spiegel
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 6:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Variables in SMP/E JCLIN records?

Hi Phil,
Try this:

//   EXPORT SYMLIST=*
//         SET USSPATH='/u/etc/'
//GENER01 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT1   DD  *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
   LIBRARY '&USSPATH.lib.a'
//SYSUT2   DD  SYSOUT=*


On 2025-11-18 18:13, Phil Smith III wrote:
> As those who have been following along will remember (i.e., probably nobody, 
> as you have your own fish to fry) I've been trying to simplify our product 
> installation process by centralizing variables in a JCLLIB member. This went 
> on hold for a while but now we're trying to finish it up, and are hitting a 
> problem that I'm hoping someone will have a hint about. Apologies where I use 
> incorrect terminology; please do correct me!
>
> The F1 relfile is the JCLIN data. Ours includes:
> //SYSLIN    DD *
>   LIBRARY '&USSPATH.lib/libsapi.a'
>
> That's not getting substituted, even if we add ",SYMBOLS=(JCLONLY,JESJCL)" to 
> the DD.
>
> Is this some limitation that we've hit, where even though that sure looks 
> like JCL, it doesn't get processed the same way "regular" JCL would?
>
> Say it ain't so...!
>
> Thanks for any hints/tips.
>
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