Just for clarification: No, we don't IPL daily - apologies for my poor wording. My use of IEASYMU2 creates two 'new' system symbols 'PRYYMMDD' and 'PRYYDDD' after IPL, but then I change the values in those symbols at about 00:01 each day.
As for "This is the sort of thing that should be routinely provided by the OS." - a huge YES! to that, and other associated values like 'first working day of the week/month/year' and so on. Its a crying shame that the only other way of getting such values in to a jobstream - that I know of! - is by spending $many for something like CA-7 or Tivoli. Sean On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 22:55, scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter , > > Do customers typically add their own SYS type symbols ? I am curious. > > Scott > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 8:44 AM Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Using IEASYMU2 is fine. > > > > I suspect that most would not use "routinely" to express the desirability > > of IBM providing a symbol for "yesterday". > > I have not seen a requirement for such a thing (this would be a "dynamic > > symbol" rather than a "static symbol"). > > FWIW, at this point, compatibility would be a concern with adding any > > symbol that does not begin with "SYS". > > > > So Sean's implementation of a symbol for his own site makes sense. > > > > Peter Relson > > z/OS Core Technology Design > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > -- > Scott Ford > IDMWORKS > z/OS Development > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
