On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:55:34 +0000, Mike Shorkend wrote: >There is one case in which there might be problems. Looking at: > >//MYFILE DD DSN=&SYSNAME,DISP=(,PASS),UNIT=SYSDA > >WIth SYSSYM set to DISALLOW, this will create a valid temporary dataset(JCL >reference says that you should use a double ampersand but a singe works >fine). >WIth SYSSYM set to ALLOW, this will create a dataset that is called >whatever your SYSNAME is. > >Other symbols will produce other strange names > ... Which is good reason that reference to an undefined symbol should *always* (yes, aboriginally) have resulted in a JCL error.
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