On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:29:33 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: >I have a program that normally runs from batch, but which I'd like to invoke >from USS. I can invoke it fine: the catch is that I need another DD defined. >Is there a way in a shell script or equivalent to do so? > Rexx, yes with BPXWDYN. Shell, practically not. But you can read or write catalogued data sets with /bin/cp. Long ago, I wrote a couple Rexx EXECs that run under UNIX and copy from DDs (which they allocate from argument strings) and IEBGENER from/to stdin/stdout. These have turned out tto be solutions searching for a problem.
What would you do with a DD if you had one? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
