If you put what on z/OS is SOME.OTHER.FILENAME(MEMBER) in a VSE library you can probably use the POWER SLI card to read it in. So it's say the VSE library is named USER.MYLIB and the member is named MEMBER.$
// EXEC MYPGM command1 command2 ... commandn * $$ SLI MEM=MEMBER.$,S=USER.MYLIB commandx commandy commandz /* Not tested, but I think that should work. -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA P: 303-235-1403 On 3/8/2010 at 4:28 PM, in message <6fd4aa1f1003081528y78fdd6d0maa8d7149c458b...@mail.gmail.com>, Donald Johnson <dej....@gmail.com> wrote: > The commands are to my application program. In my z/OS system it would look > like this; > > //SYSIN DD * > command1 > command2 > ... > commandn > /* > // DD DSN=some.other.filename(member),disp=shr > // DD * > commandx > commandy > commandz > /* > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Rich Smrcina <r...@velocitysoftware.com>wrote: > >> On 03/08/2010 03:20 PM, Donald Johnson wrote: >> >>> Hi friends! >>> >>> I have some z/OS JCL that I am trying to convert to VSE, and am brand new >>> to >>> VSE. Can someone point me toward a JCL reference guide that might help in >>> converting JCL, or could you tell me if what I am doing is even possible? >>> >>> I have a SYSIN file that has a series of commands, followed by a >>> concatenated PDS member, followed by more commands. The PDS member is >>> generated by a step higher up in the job, so I can't code it all instream. >>> >>> Thanks for the direction! >>> Don >>> >>> >>> >> Commands? Commands to what? Do these commands have relevance to a VSE >> system? >> >> -- >> Rich Smrcina >> Phone: 414-491-6001 >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina >> >> Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org >> WAVV 2010 - Apr 9-13, 2010 Covington, KY >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >> Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >>> The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html