On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 17:34:17 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > ... >1. Is there a way to say "Do the INCLUDE from the same library where you >found this JCL?" (I expect not, because I don't think the JCL has any >association with that library by the time it's submitted) > Put the mainstream JCL in that same JCLLIB and invoke it with a stub/wrapper INCLUDE. (Can INCLUDEs be nested?) (I've done similar with Assembler using a script to generate a SYSIN consisting of only a single COPY statement.)
>2. On the SMP/E RECEIVE command, I believe that in 99.44% (or higher) >cases, an RPREFIX will be needed. And I can specify this using a variable >(now!). In the unlikely event that no RPREFIX is needed, it appears from my >testing that you cannot just say > RECEIVE SYSMODS RFPREFIX() . >or, more precisely: > RECEIVE SYSMODS RFPREFIX(&RPREFIX) . >where &RPREFIX is null. Is that correct? I can handle this via doc and >comments, but of course would rather not if there's a way around it. > It's dismaying that JCL and many other IBM products provide no way of explicitly asserting a default value. Examples: o There's mo operand of TYPRUN that asserts the default value. o I encountered a problem with a script-generated DDDEF with SECONDARY(0). It had to be 1 or greater, or the option had to be omitted. o (But COBOL, OTOH, won't use SDB when the programmer omits the BLOCK CONTAINS clause.) o Etc. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
