On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:35:26 -0600, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >This can work in some cases, but it's a major kludge in my opinion. I can't >believe MVS'ers have lived with this for 40 or so years. > >Can I assume that there is no way to have "conditional" DD statements. >Something like: > >// IF COMPILE=CICS >//SYSLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CICS.SDFHCOB >// ENDIF > >Simple in VSE. In z/OS? No way that I can see. >Argh! > You're wishing for converter-phase conditionals in addition to interpreter-phase conditionals. Indeed, this would be useful.
But I don't much care. I keep my more complicated JCL as here-documents in shell scripts which can do all the conditionals and tailoring I need. -- 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