On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:59:19 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Aargh! It's documented!: > >Location in the JCL >z/OS MVS JCL Reference >SA23-1385-00 > ... > It cannot appear immediately after the first DD statement within a > concatenation. > >YTF!? Does anyone believe it was specified that way, or instead that a coder >wrote the code and when someone stumbled on the behavior it was documented >as a restriction? I wonder if it was documented that way in the earliest JCL >reference in which SET was described?
No, it wasn't. I looked in a JCL reference for MVS/ESA V5 and found simply: <quote> 25.6 Location in the JCL A SET statement can appear anywhere in the job after the JOB statement. Place a SET statement in the job's JCL before the intended use of the symbolic parameter. </quote> -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
