i wrote a program (aptly named SETCC) that accepts various parms passed in the parm field and passes them as condition codes, including an option to pass the date and time. The program accepts numbers to be passed as well as various keywords that it converts to numbers.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IF-Statement in JCL On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:01:54 +0200, Michael Knigge wrote: >Roland, > >> Not with YES/NO but like this >> Note: IEFBR14 always set RC0 > >oh my god, that simple...... > >I always thought to myself, I could write a utility that just returns >(so do a "B R14") and set a RC that I've specified with a PARM >JCL-Statement (EXEC PGM=FOO,PARM='1' or something like that) > You can use IDCAMS to set RC to a desired value, but it must appear in SYSIN, not in PARM. And you can use JCL symbols in IF statements; something like: // SET YES=0 ... // IF ( IEFBR14.RC = &YES ) ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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