On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:08:25 -0700, Phil Smith wrote: > >2) Is there a cleaner way to specify this than just adding >RFPREFIX(whatever) when needed? I had hoped to be able to provide, say, >RFPREFIX(&RFPREFIX) and then use a set symbol, but I know that won't work. > Why not? Is it because the substitutions must be made both in JCL statements and in SYSIN lines? Would SYSIN SYMBOLS= be an answer? (But can you rely on all users having a suitably recent z/OS?)
There are already instructions in the provided JCL that say to make some global changes, so I'm thinking that I should include it with something clearly invalid, maybe: RFPREFIX(!prefix!) and add it to the list of things to change, with a note that if your data sets really are just VSH.whatever, to remove it completely. > Or supply an Edit macro or a Tailoring script to automate the changes? Overkill if only one member needs to be changed (and they get it right on the first attempt); more valuable if multiple members need to be changed. A colleague once used a JCLLIB member for this purpose but that merely regressed the burden for my unit testing -- I needed to tailor the JCLLIB DSN in each JCL member. (Would it work to incorporate &SYSUID in the JCLLIB declaration?) For private use, I wrap JCL in UNIX shell scripts. That is unlikely to fly with our customers. >Just trying to make this as easy/painless as possible for people. > >Thanks in advance for any insights! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
