o Simple copy; no editing; no Alias, plus
Not sure what you tried but here is an example of having comments for
IEBGENER Sysin control cards. Took the example documented in the manual
and copied a 80 byte file.
//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTDIAG DD DUMMY
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=input file
//SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
GENERATE MAXFLDS=3,MAXLITS=11 $ COMMENT LINE # 1
RECORD FIELD=(10,'**********',,1), $ COMMENT LINE # 2
FIELD=(5,1,HE,11),FIELD=(1,'=',,16) $ COMMENT LINE # 3
LABELS DATA=INPUT $ COMMENT LINE # 4
RECORD LABELS=2 $ COMMENT LINE # 5
//*
Thanks,
Kolusu
From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 12/20/2016 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: IEBGENER SYSIN Comments?
Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:25:49 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote:
>If you only need to be able to differentiate, how about using the
"label"? Starting in column one and extending all the way to column eight
if you need it, just make a reference (more contracted than your comment
may have been intended to be) to each particular execution.
>
If the rest of the record is blank, I get RC=12;
IEB339I COMMAND MISSING PRECEDING COL.71
The best approach seems to be using a mostly harmless command (reasserting
a default)
and comment in the rest of the line.
>What functionality of IEBGENER are you using?
>
o Simple copy; no editing; no Alias, plus
o Copying attributed from SYSUT1 (which I can't control) to SYSUT2.
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:22:22 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>> >
>> ... But I have used
>> them to create aliases in batch JCL. Is there a better way?
>
>There are other ways, but if IEBGENER works for your task, then that's
>great. I'd probably be more inclined to use IEBUPDTE, but the syntax is
>completely different, and may not be suitable for your purposes. And I
>doubt it supports comments either (I didn't check).
>
o Does IEBUPDTE restrict me to fixed-80?
o Does IEBUPDTE require control records before/after the data, which
requires an existing file be copied to a temporary data set to insert
them?
o Does IEBUPDTE tolerate data records which may contain "./" in the first
two columns?
o Does IEBUPDTE require sequence numbers?
>Bottom line is your usage and desire for commenting ability are perfectly
>valid. Just don't think you're going to get much traction on it.
-- gil
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