That works. In fact you can also do a partial substitution using a variable.
Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: "Hardee, Chuck" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, March 7, 2012 3:16:05 PM Subject: Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field I don't know if it will work, but try SETting your path to a variable and then use that variable in the PATH= parameter: // SET MYPATH='long/path/name' //MYDDNAME DD PATH='&MYPATH' C- Charles (Chuck) Hardee Senior Systems Engineer Database Administration Information Technology Services Thermo Fisher Scientific 300 Industry Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15275 724-517-2633 (Office) [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 3:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field I've got several DD statements in a proc that have only a single parameter, PATH='long/path/name' Because the path is long the statement will not fit on a single card image (but the PATH parameter by itself will). So I coded //MYDDNAME DD // PATH='long/path/name' No good. It turns out the JCL Reference means what it says when it says you can break a JCL statement *after* any parameter (but not, apparently, before any parameter!). Putting an X in column 72 does not help. Putting a solo comma somewhere after DD does not help. The JCL reference does not provide any guidance that I could find. Google does not seem to know how to do this. I'm sure I could wrestle with the rules for continuing quoted parameters, but that makes an obscure, difficult to maintain mess IMHO. Do any of you more experienced JCL jockeys know a simple trick for getting around this problem? Is there some DD parameter that I should code as a "no-op" on the first line? Thanks all. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
