I did try it, and I agree with Gil, and would add that the whole EXPORT
facility is rather bizarre.
First, the SYSUT1 SYSIN received 'AFTER' for the symbol. I suppose that
means it is substituted sometime after the JCL is interpreted. Maybe it
was easiest to implement it this way (along with
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 23:37:57 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>
>Maybe this isn't a real enough situation to matter, but it seems odd to me.
>...
Also, I was astonished by the behavior of (try it!)
//STEP EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSIN DD *
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=(,)
//*
// EXPORT
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 23:37:57 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>We just upgraded from z/OS 1.13 to z/OS 2.2 and I'm experimenting with using
>symbols in in-stream data. Here is some JCL:
>
>//SYSUT1 DD *,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,SYMBLOG)
>&SYSNAME =
>...
>The output is as follows:
...
>&SYSNAME
