I see said the blind man.....
I probably sohuld have included this at first:
The variations I was working with.
* LOAD EP=IDCAMS ,
* LR R15,R0 ,
* CALL (15),VGCARGL,VL
* LA R1,VGCARGL , R1 => IDCAMS ARGUMENT LIST
LINK EP=IDCAMS,PARAM=VGCOPTA,VL=1
B VGCRET ,
.
.
.
.
******************************************************************
DS 0F
VGCARGL DS 0XL12
VGCOPT DC AL4(VGCOPTA)
VGCDDN DC AL4(VGCDDNA)
VGCPGN DC AL4(VGCPGNA)
******************************************************************
* DUMMY PARMS FOR IDCAMS.
******************************************************************
VGCOPTA DC H'0000' , NO OPTIONS SPECIFIED
VGCDDNA DC H'0000' , NO OVERRIDING DDNAMES
VGCPGNA DC H'0000' , NO PAGE NUMBER SPECIFIED
******************************************************************
The LINK (uncomented) now works.
Seymour, as you indicated my LINK was previously using VGCOPT, the address
of the options, not the options specifically.
Once I specified the options directly, VGCOPTA, Voila! It worked,
The SYSPRINT is now as it should be.
Thanks guys.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <
[email protected]> wrote:
> In <[email protected]>, on
> 10/31/2011
> at 04:51 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said:
>
> >You really need to look. At the IDCAMS book on how to invoke IDCAMS.
> >From a iffy memory R1 points to a list of DDNAMES like SYSIN1 and
> >SYSRINT2 but you have to look at the docuetation.
>
> R1 points to a standard parameter list. The first word should point to
> a parm string, i.e., halfword length followed by characters. If he
> correctly sets the end of list bit then only the first word is
> relevant.
>
> Had he wanted the ddname list then he'd have needed a second word in
> the parameter list, again with the end-of-list bit set correctly.
>
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