> // SET ACTVAR=&ACTION Should work.
You don't need the apostrophes in this case, although they are valid. The &Q trick is for introducing an apostrophe into thr valur and should not work for delimiting the values. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 2:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Trying to use long parm= in started task Does // SET ACTVAR=&ACTION work? Or do you indeed need to quote &ACTION? (If you do, I heartily endorse @Gil's &Q trick. I have used that.) Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 9:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Trying to use long parm= in started task On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:29:00 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I believe that the problem is a combination of an error in your JCL and an >error in the Converter. &ACTION is a symbolic parameter but not a symbol. Try > >// SET ACTIONVAR='&ACTION' >... That doesn't work: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=jcl-coding-symbols-in-apostrophes> You can code symbols in apostrophes on [only --gil] the following keywords: The DD statement AMP parameter The DD statement PATH parameter The DD statement SUBSYS parameter The EXEC statement ACCT parameter The EXEC statement PARM parameter. Not SET. I believe the following works: // SET Q='''' // SET ACTIONVAR=&Q&ACTION&Q Is this well-documented? I hate JCL! Does "ACTIONVAR" have too many characters? >//PARMDD DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY >SH /u/mqweb3/conf/ccc.sh aa &T2 x &ACTIONVAR y &ACTIONVAR z >/* -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
