On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:43:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
>I wrote a small program that took the parm (after the system
>substituted the variables) and wrote it as a F 80 80 file w 1 record.
>Ran it once for each card then used all the files for the input file.
>
But you had to type the date by hand into the PARM, failing
to satisfy the OP's requirement for a symbolic parameter.
>> On 9/16/2010 at 2:47 PM, "Harris, Randy" wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a symbolic parameter for date that will allow me to do this?
>>>
Come to think of it, nowadays FTP can take its input from
a DDNAME. Many installations have dealt with the symbolic
date stupidity by providing a parameter member that's
updated periodically, automatically. You could use such
a member as the first catenand.
Hmmm. DDNAME. Concatenation. I know some of the deficiencies
of FTP. I'd be pessimistic about supplying:
//FTPDATA DD PATH='/...'
// DD *
// DD DSN=...
// ...
I wonder whether that works? I wonder whether it's
documented that it doesn't?
-- gil
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