Charles, Are you looking for something like...
S CICS,JOBNAME=CICS&SYSNAME. Or am I just completely not understanding what you are looking for... There is a section in the JCL Reference on System Symbols which after a few rules refers the reader to the JCL Symbols section and the Init and Tuning Reference. Rob On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:43:31 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > >>I want to be able to use a >>single common control file to specify the name of a file for an STC that >>could be unique across systems: > > You can use system symbols in started task JCL. > >>Yes, I could just write an STC to try it with but gee, isn't the point of >>documentation so that you can know how things work WITHOUT having to run >>experiments? > > Sure, but it only works if you read it. It is in the JCL reference. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Rob Schramm Senior Systems Engineer w: 513.305.6224 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

