Check with your system programmer. Often the setting to allow substitute DD * text is limited to specific JOBCLASS.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > As those who have been following along will remember (i.e., probably > nobody, as you have your own fish to fry) I've been trying to simplify our > product installation process by centralizing variables in a JCLLIB member. > This went on hold for a while but now we're trying to finish it up, and are > hitting a problem that I'm hoping someone will have a hint about. Apologies > where I use incorrect terminology; please do correct me! > > The F1 relfile is the JCLIN data. Ours includes: > //SYSLIN DD * > LIBRARY '&USSPATH.lib/libsapi.a' > > That's not getting substituted, even if we add ",SYMBOLS=(JCLONLY,JESJCL)" > to the DD. > > Is this some limitation that we've hit, where even though that sure looks > like JCL, it doesn't get processed the same way "regular" JCL would? > > Say it ain't so...! > > Thanks for any hints/tips. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
