>I gotta ask, how on earth have you guys survived all these years >without system symbols support enabled in JES?
For production jobs, I guess the schedulers jumped in. They long (always?) supported symbols that will be resolver at submit time. A couple of date/time symbols and even better date time functions help even more. And they long (always?) supported these symbols in instream data (DD *). For those jobs I doubt anyone has any need for the system symbol support introduced with z/OS V2.1 Peronal jobs are a different story. It has always been a great pita that there was no system symbol support for batch jobs, and for batch and STC, that there was no support for system and JCL symbols in instream data. I personaly have quickly started to use instream support, and to a lesser extent, system symbols in my own jobs. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
