Gil:
That was what I was trying to say and didn't do it very well. Love the new JCL changes is Z/OS 2.1 Scott From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:43 AM To: [email protected] On 2014-12-17, at 09:31, Scott Ford wrote: > Yeah but that's only as of z/OS 2.1 ….as a ISV we support backlevel versions > also …so one has to come up with two solutions … > No, you need to come up with only the solution for the backlevel version, then rely on upward compatibility. (But it may be suboptimal.) It's a design blunder that STDPARM is mutex with EXEC PARM= rather than being appended. If it had been appended the programmer might assign a few variables in the EXEC PARM= using JCL symbol values, then exploit them in the script in STDPARM. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
