Perhaps the following would work? I did it at my shop and did not get a syntax error. Notice the use of a double ampersand. If you look at the resulting automatic command, it only has a single ampersand. It's kind of like with HLASM's need to double an ampersand to get a actual ampersand.
$T A,T=18.30,I=86400,'$T OFFLOAD1,DSN=BKCAVTP.S6.D&&LYYMMDD..T&&LHHMMSS' On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> wrote: > The Symbolic substitution is done at command interpretation time and it > does appear to be for the entire command, even what is between single > quotes. > > I think what you need to do is set up a program that takes as a parm the > JES2 command to be submitted into the system and then set up a started task > that runs the program. Set the started task as the time that is started by > the JES2 auto command. > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > Information Technology > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of ibmmain > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 2:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: JES2 symbolic > > Hi All > > I want jes2 to do offload by itself by adding "$T > A,T=18.30,I=86400,'$T OFFLOAD1,DSN=BKCAVTP.S6.D&LYYMMDD..T&LHHMMSS' " > statement in parmlib. > > I find that the output is alwasys DSN=BKCAVTP.S6D150724.T103349 > > D150724.T103349 is the time when I issue this "$T A,T=18.30,I=86400,'$T > OFFLOAD1,DSN=BKCAVTP.S6.D&LYYMMDD..T&LHHMMSS' " command > > The time is fixed at D150724.T103349 > > My question : > > Why don't jes2 translate D&LYYMMDD..T&LHHMMSS' to real time when it do > offload? > > > Thanks a lot! > > Best Regards, > > Jason Cai > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
