Juan Mautalen wrote: >I have a question regarding JCL and date variables. I need to run a job daily, >whose output must be written to a partitionned dataset with a member name >referring to the day before job execution.
Can you not use automation software? Control-M and others, for example, can be setup to specify whatever you want and set it up. Say, use Schedule day or system day and subtract/add x many days and you have your variables. I use that JCL editing facility every day for all my dozen reporting jobs. >Example: If the job runs today, january 7 of 2014, it must create the member >F140106 ( and not F140107). That is because the job processes information from >the day before (and not from the day it is indeed running). >Is there a way to achieve this purely from JCL? we have z/OS 1.13. Not from z/OS 1.12 or 1.13 AFAIK. I don't know if z/OS v2 has that, but things could be interesting if it has that ability. But you can use date and other variables in a STC, not in a batch job. Like this working STC: //WHATSUP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //PEST DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG), // SPACE=(CYL,(1,1)),LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,DSNTYPE=PDS, // DSN=SYS1.A&JDAY But, no further editing AFAIK... Could you write a REXX program to achieve that? Say, get system date, convert to julian, subtract 1 and check whether yesterday is on a leap year or not. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
