Paul, do you have a sample?

(This would actually enable something for me.)

Thanks, Martin

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> On 31 Dec 2018, at 16:01, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:29:19 +0000, Sean Gleann wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> I have routinely kept JCL wrapped in UNIX shell scripts, as
here-documents
> (think "instream") in which I can routinely do such things with command
> substitution.  z/OS UNIX is a boon, and the (incremental) price is right.
>
> And Peter R. has clarified that it's not customers but IBM that's advised
> to use SYS as a prefix.  Should ISVs yet stay with registered componend
> prefixes?
>
> -- gil
>
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