On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:52:57 +0200, Steff Gladstone wrote: >Ok. Let me make my question clearer. I am talking about modification >before execution of the job-step begins. There is a list (either in a VSAM >file or in common memory, and constantly changing) of batch jobs (actually >the key would be jobname/stepname) that require some extra monitoring, >which is implemented by adding an input file (created on the fly) and >possibly adding some extra parameters to the PARM of the EXEC statement. > This must be done before the job-step begins to execute. > Create a Parameters PDSE with a member for each job that may need to be modified. A job can read such a member and act appropriately.
ISPF can safely edit PDS members without ENQ EXC DSN. It will be hard to avoid race conditions. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
