Skip,

I remember discussions in other forums with IBM and they had the same response. Its been years but I think the user reply to IBM do it right the first time and document it well and nobody would mind.
It appears that IBM fell down on the documentation issue.

Ed
On Nov 13, 2015, at 4:05 PM, J O Skip Robinson wrote:

A Friday musing. We at SHARE pounded on IBM for years to implement symbol substitution in batch. IBM's defense of the status quo was that unlike STC and TSO, where execution is immediate on a known system, a batch job could wander all around the JES network on its way from submit to execute. And then languish indefinitely on the end point system before actually executing. Where and how would appropriate substitution take place? In a several open forums over the years, attendees (customers) often disagreed on the 'right' place and method to do it. Just sayin'.

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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 1:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: (External):Re: Premature SYMBOL substitution in SYSIN?

It would seem to be a case of (as I think was mentioned in an earlier reply) associating the second SET with the second execution of PROC P and processing the second SET *before* starting the second execution of PROC P. Inserting an extra step to execute IEFBR14 just before the second SET statement also gives correct results in the GENER output:

//  EXPORT SYMLIST=*
//P     PROC
//GEN   EXEC  PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=(,)
//SYSIN     DD  DUMMY
//SYSUT2    DD  SYSOUT=(,)
//P     PEND
//*
//  SET V2=WOMBAT  *************************************
//WOMBAT1  EXEC P
//SYSUT1    DD  *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
GENER STEP;
  WITH V2=&V2..
//WOMBAT2  EXEC P
//SYSUT1    DD  *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
GENER STEP;
  WITH V2=&V2..
//NEWSTEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14   <==== INSERTED STEP HERE
//  SET V2=XYZZY   *************************************
//XYZZY1   EXEC P
//SYSUT1    DD  *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
GENER STEP;
  WITH V2=&V2..
//XYZZY2   EXEC P
//SYSUT1    DD  *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
GENER STEP;
  WITH V2=&V2..
//

HTH

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 4:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Premature SYMBOL substitution in SYSIN?

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 10:12:01 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:

Mine was corrected with OA47958

My systems programmer tells me we now have that. In my somewhat different case, the JESJCL shows:
               ...
<Snipped>

Still broke.


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