On Sun, 18 May 2025 17:45:01 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Paul, >Please see DFSMSdfp Utilities, Introduction Page 8. Here is an excerpt: >Continuing utility control statements Utility control statements are >contained in columns 1 through 71. > ... This: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=bpxbatch-guidelines-defining-stdparm>
For in-stream data sets: with the SH option, trailing blanks are not truncated. Records in in-stream data sets are concatenated with blanks as separator characters, and the string remaining after the SH token is passed as a single argument to a /bin/sh -c command. .... The file or data set should not have sequence numbers in it. Makes it pretty clear that Utility Command syntax does not apply to STDPARM. The suggestion of a shell script wrapper is probably effective. But the OP may have been trying to avoid UNIX facilities. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
