Thank you, Eric, that is indeed what I meant -- you cannot place DD * before the PEND statement, or anywhere in a proclib member. And it is still a restriction in z/OS 1.4, producing error message:
IEFC601I INVALID JCL STATEMENT if you put DD * in a proc. And I agree with everyone that said they should get rid of that restriction, in addition to increasing the PARM length. Regards, Cathy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Chevalier Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PARM= On 13 May 2005 06:06:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John) wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Taddei, Cathy >> >> I agree with Gil and Charles. IMO, a DD statement would be pointless. >> If a programmer wanted to receive a parm via DD, they could have done >> it already. One of the advantages of PARM= is that you can stick it >> in a proc, where DD * will not work. > >//A PROC >//..... >//SYSIN DD DDNAME=SYSIN >// PEND >//BB EXEC A >//..... >//BB.SYSIN DD * >.. >.. >/* > >Works here.... I think the type of situation that Cathy is referring to would be something like: //A PROC //..... //SYSIN DD * [control cards embedded directly in the PROC] /* // PEND This has always been one of my pet JCL annoyances; the inability to embed a sysin dataset *within* a proc means that I need to maintain *two* files: the PROC itself AND the control file. (Disclaimer: I have not tried to create a proc like the example shown above in quite a few years; I don't know for a fact that current versions of z/OS won't accept such JCL.) Eric -- Eric Chevalier E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tulsagrammer.com Is that call really worth your child's life? HANG UP AND DRIVE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else, unless expressly approved by the sender or an authorized addressee, is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action omitted or taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender, delete this e-mail and destroy all copies. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
