Skip - try closing the symbolic with a dot DSN= TSOSKIP.REPORT.D&LDATE..T<IME. Jerry Whitteridge Manager Mainframe Systems & Storage Albertsons - Safeway Inc. 925 738 9443 Corporate Tieline - 89443
If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: System symbols in batch JCL I'm trying to use system symbols in batch JCL under z/OS 2.1. Specifically, I'd like to create a DSN like this: TSOSKIP.REPORT.D-local-date.T-local-time I've perused KC but still cannot get to work. Now maybe DSN simply does not allow embedded symbolics, but I did not see that prohibition. Here's what I get. 3 // SET D=&LDATE 4 // SET T=<IME //* 5 //TIMETEST EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 6 //SYSTSIN DD * 7 //SYSTSPRT DD DISP=(,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,1),RECFM=FB,LRECL=80, // UNIT=SYSALLDA, // DSN= TSOSKIP.REPORT.D&D..T&T IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - DISP=(,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,1),RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,UNIT=SYSALLDA, DSN= TSOSKIP.REPORT.D&LDATE.T<IME . MESSAGE 7 IEFC627I INCORRECT USE OF AMPERSAND IN THE DSN FIELD I read that system symbols must be enabled by class, which I did for class A: $HASP837 JOBCLASS(A) SYSSYM=ALLOW But it looks like my job is failing at conversion and never getting to execution. Shouldn't this be easy? ;-) . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
