Semicolon is a separator for TSO SH as well, but you have to keep TSO from recognizing it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 9:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: USS: su: User ID "SH" does not exist I'm talking about the TSO SH command not a shell script! On 2020-05-15 9:13 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > Nope. In Unix, semicolons are command separators, not a continuation > indicator. The actual command continuation character is "\", but that > is only needed just prior to an EOL character. > > It would appear that in this environment no end-of-line characters are > seen, so unix just sees "SH su <whitespace> SH ...". Without the > semicolon the shell sees the command "su SH", which is an attempt to > switch to the context of user "SH". In the absence of a recognized > EOL/ENTER to indicate end of command, the semicolon must be used between > commands -- although putting an extra one at the end doesn't hurt -- it > just sees a null command at the end. > > This requirement may not be documented. They may just assume that > everyone familiar with Unix will of course "know" this if they describe > the STDPARM file as being treated as a single string or a single line > with no EOL forced at the end of each record. > Joel C Ewing > > > On 5/15/20 7:47 AM, David Crayford wrote: >> Nope. Semicolons are a continuation! >> >> On 2020-05-15 8:13 PM, David Spiegel wrote: >>> Hi Jon, >>> Every line except for the last line needs a semicolon. >>> >>> Regards, >>> David >>> >>> On 2020-05-15 08:10, Jon Bathmaker wrote: >>>> Hi Ed, >>>> >>>> Thanks for this! How *did* you find out about the semicolons, I >>>> didn't see them anywhere in the doc. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> *Jon Bathmaker,* >>>> SYS1 Consulting Inc. >>>> 519-577-9661 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 5/15/2020 12:19 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: >>>>> On 5/14/2020 5:23 PM, Jon Bathmaker wrote: >>>>>> //STDPARM DD * >>>>>> SH su >>>>>> SH echo $PATH >>>>>> SH unmount -fv ZOS240.SYS1.OMVS.SYSRES.OS240971.FNT.ZFS >>>>> >>>>> The above looks wrong to me. I always do it this way: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> //STDPARM DD * >>>>> SH su; >>>>> echo $PATH; >>>>> unmount -fv ZOS240.SYS1.OMVS.SYSRES.OS240971.FNT.ZFS >>>>> >>>>> >>>> .. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
