Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
half of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 7:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JCL to include data On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:33 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:02:20 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-09 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:33 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:02:20 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >... > >??? Please explain that. Do you mean, you want to add the members as an > input into that JCL? Why not just concatenate t

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Mark Pace
Oh how I got led down a path today. Guy told me a lot of stuff, but not everything. I didn't ask him the right questions, ASSuMEing, he knew what he was doing. He was trying to insert VB records in the JCL, and he was out of space in the PDS. But I think I did learn something from you guys conce

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:33:14 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > ... >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ikjc500/ikj2l2_SUBMIT_command_operands.htm >Note [brightly highlighed] >All characters in the job stream are converted to uppercase >before being pr

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 19:42:58 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Does the OP need to do SUBMIT? > This feels like a case where the user is throwing his influence around and invoking middle management's support against an "unresponsive" support staff's refusal to accommodate the user's way. >Do you have

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Seymour J Metz
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 3:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JCL to include data On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:02:20 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >... >??? Please explain that. Do you mean, you want to add the members as an input >int

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Seymour J Metz
Separate the JCL into a prefix member and a suffix member, then write a job to copy a concatenation of the pieces to the Internal Reader. But if you don't need to do symbol substitution then you can just change your job to use DSN= instead of * or DATA. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:02:20 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >... >??? Please explain that. Do you mean, you want to add the members as an input >into that JCL? Why not just concatenate them using some DD statements? > ... >Why not use a [concatenated] DD refering to the source of that data in th

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mark Pace wrote: >Working with a user that needs include a bunch of data in a JCL. The data is >too large to copy into the JCL. During the copy he gets several E37s and then >ends with a B37. How is the JCL generated in the first place? Do you build up a large, extra large, extreme large dat

Re: JCL to include data

2019-07-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:49:00 -0400, Mark Pace wrote: >Working with a user that needs include a bunch of data in a JCL. The data >is too large to copy into the JCL. During the copy he gets several E37s and >then ends with a B37. It appears to me that he runs out of space in that >PDS. > >The data