Classification: Confidential OOPs! Exit 4 may be Simpler, not similar....
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Monday, November 11, 2024 8:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Modifying JCL on the fly [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] Classification: Confidential JCL has already been converted. Text units can be added/deleted as needed (again, very similar to dynamic allocation. EXIT4 is (possibly) similar. When I actually did this at a former employer, EXIT6 needed to be modified. HTH, -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Monday, November 11, 2024 8:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Modifying JCL on the fly [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] Hi Allan, Why is JES2 Exit 6 better than Exit 4 for this purpose? Regards, David On 11/11/2024 08:59, Allan Staller wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > IEFUSI is too late in the process. I suggest JES2 EXIT6 (or EXIT26?) > depending on the JES2 Environment. > In both cases, you must be prepared to manipulate the INTERPRETER internal > text (very similar in concept to dynamic allocation). > > HTH, > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Steff Gladstone > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2024 2:51 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Modifying JCL on the fly > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you > trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a > Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your > Computer.] > > What is the best way of modifying JCL after the job has been > submitted, in order to conditionally add another DDNAME to a JOB STEP? Or > perhaps adding parameters to the PARM string on the EXEC statement. > > We were thinking of using the IEFUSI exit point, allocating a file > dynamically before the main program of the job-step is attached. I > gather there are also JES2 exits (are they simple exits or the more > flexible exit > points?) that are appropriate to the task and would be interested to hear > advice from other system programmers. > > Two other questions: are these exits specified in the PARMLIB or via some > other mechanism? And what happens if the exit fails in some way? What > action does the system take? > > Thanks in advance, > Steff Gladstone > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ::DISCLAIMER:: > ________________________________ > The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and > intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not > guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, > corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses > in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred > errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or > its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely > those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of > HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, > disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message > without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is > strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete > it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or > attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. > ________________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
