Phil,

Why not put the JCLIN content after a ++JCLIN statement within the function
SYSMOD itself, rather than as a RELFILE?

Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 6:13 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> 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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