The TSO/E Command Reference says the syntax for LINK with prompting is LINK (*), not LINK *.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=command-link-syntax -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 12:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Any CLIST fans still here? I can't make DATA PROMPT work Any suggestions, please? I'll paste the CLIST below. I just wanted a quick 'n' easy assemble and link, and so I threw this together. I could save the LINK control statements to a dataset, but putting them between DATA PROMPT and ENDDATA should work. I'm using TK5 (turnkey MVS 3.8j) but CLIST should work much the same. I even changed it to look more like IBM's example in their online doc, without success. LINK runs and asks for control statements and if I send them, the LINK runs OK but then the prompt data runs as commands after LINK has finished: 000001 PROC 1 ASMMEM 000002 /* TROL SYMLIST CONLIST LIST */ 000003 CONTROL PROMPT LIST 000004 WRITE &NRSTR(==ASM==) 000005 ASM T(&ASMMEM) LO(T(&ASMMEM)) LIST TEST ESD XREF RLD LIB(T.ASM) 000006 WRITE &NRSTR(==LINK==) 000007 ALLOC DA(T.OBJ) DD(WIZLIN) SHR REU 000008 SET NULL = 000009 LINK * LO(T.LOAD) PR(*) NCAL XREF LIST LET TEST 000010 DATA PROMPT 000011 INCLUDE WIZLIN(&ASMMEM.) 000012 ENTRY &ASMMEM 000013 NAME &ASMMEM.(R) 000014 ENDDATA 000015 &NULL ****** ****ZAP****AUTOSAVE********* BOTTOM OF DATA -- Roops "Mundus sine caesaribus" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
