I copy pasted the JCL into a real editor, i.e. ISPF, and noticed an oddity in this line:
//SYMS2 DD *&IFSYM,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD2) There is no space between asterisk and ampersand. Could that be right? . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: GENERATED STATEMENT!? In my JESJCL listing I see: ... 33 // EXPORT SYMLIST=* 34 // SET IFSYM='' (Blank for pre-JES2 2.1.) 35 //IFSYM EXPORT EXPSET= GENERATED STATEMENT 36 // SET SYMVAL='Symbol value longer than name.' 37 //SYMVAL EXPORT EXPSET=Symbol value longer than... GENERATED STATEMENT //* 38 //SYMS1 DD *,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD1) 39 //LOGDD1 DD SYSOUT=(,) //* 40 //SYMS2 DD *&IFSYM,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD2) IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - *,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD2) 41 //SYSIN DD * GENERATED STATEMENT 42 //LOGDD2 DD SYSOUT=(,) //* 43 // Where does "41 //SYSIN DD * GENERATED STATEMENT" come from? What does it mean? (I had no stray data cards.) I hate JCL! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
