> What's the 8-character prefix used for? At least one use is in overriding a DD in a step in a cataloged procedure.
//COMPILE.SYSIN DD ... Does that make any sense for INCLUDE? I would guess that it does, but I am not perfectly familiar with INCLUDE and too lazy to look it up. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 11:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: JCL INCLUDE statement name field It's dangerous to let me read reference manuals. In: Title: z/OS V1R13.0 MVS JCL Reference Document Number: SA22-7597-16 I read: 18.1.2 Name Field ... The name is 1 through 8 alphanumeric or national ($, #, @) characters. The first character must be alphabetic or national ($, #, @). ... The name may be preceded by up to 8 alphanumeric or national characters, and then separated by a period. So apparently I can code: //12345678.WOMBAT INCLUDE FRED No examples given! What's the 8-character prefix used for? Now that I look, it's allowed on several other statements, such as EXEC and IF, but not JOB. All their descriptions mention something it doesn't do, but don't say what it does. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
