If it makes you feel any better, I can reproduce your exact error on my 2.1 system....
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: GENERATED STATEMENT!? On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:41:36 -0400, David Betten wrote: >I[s] there a blank line between SYSMS2 and LOGDD2 statements? > I said: >> From: Paul Gilmartin >> Date: 05/27/2015 12:37 PM >> >> ... (I had no stray data cards.) On 2015-05-27 10:54, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > 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? > Yes. On 2015-05-27 10:56, Staller, Allan wrote:> Appears to be a missing comma on statement 40 > There is not. > 40 //SYMS2 DD *&IFSYM,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD2) > > s/b > > 40 //SYMS2 DD *,&IFSYM,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD2) > ^ > > HTH, > It doesn't On Wed, 27 May 2015 10:25:13 -0700, retired mainframer wrote: >Submit the job in hold status and use SDSF to look at the data card(s) in the >SYSIN "member". Then find that data in the dataset you submitted and >determine why it was not recognized as JCL. One common reason is that columns >1 and 2 do not contain // or /*. > Even better, copied and pasted from SDSF SJ panel: ... 000172 //* 000173 // EXPORT SYMLIST=* 000174 // SET IFSYM='' (Blank for pre-JES2 2.1.) 000175 // SET SYMVAL='Symbol value longer than name.' 000176 //* 000177 //SYMS1 DD *,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD1) 000178 Try &SYMVAL 000179 Preset LRECL with longer line ......... 000180 //LOGDD1 DD SYSOUT=(,) 000181 //* 000182 //SYMS2 DD *&IFSYM,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,LOGDD2) 000183 Try &SYMVAL 000184 Short line 000185 //LOGDD2 DD SYSOUT=(,) 000186 //* 000187 // ... Do you see anything wrong? On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:14:42 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > ... We do this all the time ... > Thank you for understanding JCL syntax better than most of the followups. --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
