If Cobol code is an acceptable option the below program should do what you want.
It's rather easy to enhance it to split the input parm into multiple lines, say, using the "JPx" delimiters, just like in the SORT sample. HTH, -Victor- 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. PARM2DD. 000400****************************************************************** 000500* COPY INPUT PARM='...' TO OUTPARM DD 000600****************************************************************** 000700 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000800 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000900 INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. 001000 FILE-CONTROL. 001100 SELECT OUTPUT-FILE ASSIGN TO OUTPARM. 001200 DATA DIVISION. 001300 FILE SECTION. 001400 FD OUTPUT-FILE 001500 BLOCK CONTAINS 0 RECORDS 001600 RECORDING MODE IS F. 001700 01 OUTPUT-FILE-RECORD PIC X(80). 001800 001900 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 002100****************************************************************** 002200 LINKAGE SECTION. 002400 01 PARM-FROM-EXEC. 002500 05 PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(04) COMP. 002600 05 PARM-VALUE. 002700 10 PARM-VALUE-CHAR PIC X OCCURS 80 TIMES 002800 DEPENDING ON PARM-LENGTH. 002900****************************************************************** 003000 PROCEDURE DIVISION USING PARM-FROM-EXEC. 003100 003200 OPEN OUTPUT OUTPUT-FILE. 003300 003400 MOVE PARM-VALUE TO OUTPUT-FILE-RECORD. 003500 DISPLAY OUTPUT-FILE-RECORD UPON CONSOLE. 003600 WRITE OUTPUT-FILE-RECORD. 003700 003800 CLOSE OUTPUT-FILE. 003900 GOBACK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello friends! I have a teammate working on a z/OS 1.12 system and is trying to make a proc fairly foolproof for his user. He wants to know the easiest way to convert a SET statement or JCL Parm into a control card. This proc needs a DSN and a couple other values as part of a SYSIN for the program, and since we can't use symbolics in pre-z/OS 2.1, I would like a way using standard IBM utilities to take a PARM symbolic and create an output file that I can use as input to the program. The parm input would only be one line, and not longer than 50 chars. Does anyone have any good ideas? Sort? Gener? Thank you and best regards, *Billy Ashton* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
