This is a great discussion and I'm'a try to respond to lots of it. Short version is that I fully admit that I don't really know what I'm doing here, so for questions like Mike Shaw's below, the answer is mostly:
1) I didn't create the packaging 2) I had no idea you could do that! 3) I'm not at all sure what that would entail. More anon. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Shaw Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 7:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Variables in SMP/E JCLIN records? Phil, Why not put the JCLIN content after a ++JCLIN statement within the function SYSMOD itself, rather than as a RELFILE? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 6:13 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
