On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:26:51 +0000, Ted MacNEIL wrote:

>>the program reads the job stream and substitutes parms flagged by % signs 
>>with user supplied values.
>
>At the risk of being obtuse, why roll your own, when the JES2/3 interpreters 
>can already do this with '&'?
>
Does JOB ("the program"), perhaps, perform the substitution in
instream data sets, label fields, etc.?  This would be great
added value over the JES2/3 "interpreters" (ITYM reader/converters
-- isn't the substitution done before interpreter?)

Did anyone supply the original member name of IBM's sample?
I'll reread the thread.

-- gil

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