I'm keeping this as my set of examples - Thanks Charles <grin> Jerry Whitteridge Delivery Manager / Mainframe Architect GTS - Safeway Account 602 527 4871 Mobile jerry.whitteri...@ibm.com
IBM Services IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on 02/14/2019 02:07:07 PM: > From: Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 02/14/2019 02:07 PM > Subject: Re: PARMDD and Symbols in a Started PROC > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > @Tom's got it. Thanks. > > EXPORT works in a PROC and so forth but must come before the > definition of the symbols it exports. (Again, seems kind of > backwards, but what do I know?) > > I think I could have done > > //jobname JOB ... > // EXPORT SYMLIST=* > //procname PROC ... > > But I have never coded a started PROC with a JOB (and I know you > can, but it was just a wormhole I did not want to go down at this > moment) so I did more or less what Tom suggests. > > //procname PROC PARM1=value1,PARM2=value2 > // EXPORT SYMLIST=* > // SET $PARM1=PARM1 > // SET $PARM2=PARM2 > ... > //MYPARMDD DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY > $PARM1,$PARM2,... > > And it is all working. Gosh some better doc AND SOME MEANINGFUL > EXAMPLES would be appreciated. > > Thanks all here for the help. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > ] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 11:16 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: PARMDD and Symbols in a Started PROC > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:01:44 -0800, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > >> // EXPORT gets specified first before any // SET stmts > > > >How do I do that in a PROC where the SETs are implicit in the PROC > >statement, which is the very first statement? > > > >//procname PROC PARM1=value,PARM2=value > > Try this: > //procname PROC PARM1=value,PARM2=value > // EXPORT SYMLIST=* > // SET PARM1=&PARM1 > // SET PARM2=&PARM2 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
