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Oh, drudge away! (Or, even "dredge" if you prefer.)
I wouldn't mind changing my JCL to enable this. A couple
possibilities:
o Support for symbol substitution in SYSIN data sets, so
one might code:
//STDPARM DD *,SYMBOLS=YES
FOO=&FOO
BAR=&BAR
...
(wouldn't you like to be able to substitute JCL symbols
in STDIN for COZBATCH?)
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There are a number of RYO utilities that will take values from the PARM
field to update SYSIN-type datasets. Even have one myself, if you'd like
a copy.
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o Or support in JCL to pass these in the second, third, ...
arguments as in CALL (and without the 100-character limit):
//STEP EXEC PGM=MYPROG,PARM=(LIST,XREF),
// ALTPARM=('alternate DDNAME list','FOO=&FOO','BAR=&BAR',...)
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This one might be a bit harder. You'd have to update all your HLL
compilers/libraries to allow for this possibility. If the 100-character
limit were lifted for the standard PARM field, that might be a lot
easier, especially within HLL compilers/libraries. Would you settle for
a 255-character limit?
Rick
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