On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:43:31 -0800, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
>Thanks. I have no interest in "improving" JCL. I want to be able to use a
>single common control file to specify the name of a file for an STC that
>could be unique across systems:
>
>MYFILE=MY.&SYSNAME..DATA.FILE
>
>MY.&SYSNAME..DATA.FILE would ultimately end up in an fopen():
>
>fopen("MY.&SYSNAME..DATA.FILE", ...); // would actually be a chr* variable
>not a literal
>
You could use the symbol service in a assembler program to figure it
out yourself and pass that along to your fopen.
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