On the side topic... Based on our latest "experience": - without /*JOBPARM SYSAFF: symbols got resolved in the submitting LPAR, which caused some problems as they were different from the executing LPAR (and used as a dataset qualifier); - with /*JOBPARM SYSAFF: symbols are resolved in the executing LPAR (even with SYSAFF=*);
I also don't know about the documentation, just learned from a colleague that had worked on our issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / lucas.rosal...@ibm.com http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen 2018-06-21 8:16 GMT+02:00 Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za>: > Andrew Rowley wrote: > > >> to this one (clear out the SYSIN - at least for IDCAMS SYSIN and place > it in a JCL comment): > >> //* DELETE KVPO.MOST.DB2DATA.&LVL4..&PART..TRS > >> //SYSIN DD *,SYMBOLS=(JCLONLY,X) > >> SET MAXCC = 0 > > >Unfortunately that may not work because the symbols in SYSIN are not > substituted the same way as in the regular JCL. I have been playing around > with them and my conclusion is that the whole feature seems to have been > badly thought out. > > Thanks for this reminder. I remember that I also discovered that > substition is not always correct, but I was too busy to follow it up. > > > >If IBM had omitted some features, e.g. system symbols on the execution > system and instead substituted the symbols at the same time as the symbols > in the rest of the JCL, they would have lost maybe 10% of the usefulness > but decreased the astonishment by 90%. > > Which brings another question - I am just curious - Where are the Symbols > resolved? At the submitting LPAR or at the Executing LPAR? Or is the > '/*JOBPARM SYSAFF=<LPAR>' used to determine the LPAR where the Symbols are > to be resolved/substituted? > > I am asking, because there are Symbols unique for a LPAR, like this: > > D SYMBOLS > IEA007I STATIC SYSTEM SYMBOL VALUES > &SYSALVL. = "2" > &SYSCLONE. = "C4" <--- Unique per LPAR > &SYSNAME. = "????" <--- Unique per LPAR > > If that is documented, I must missed it somewhere ... > > Sorry for this topic drift, but ... ;-) > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
