Thanks. I do NOT need JES3. This is for internal use, not a product, and our datacenter is all JES2.
Thanks for your experiment below. That's the right idea even if it did not work. I always forget about the UNIX tools from batch. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols I don't have a solution for the string comparison issue, but the DISP=NEW issue I can tell you with confidence "just works" under JES2. For either a COND= or an IF bypass of a step, all of the DD's are bypassed and no allocation error occurs. I use this feature all the time in my testing. For JES3 I'm not sure if it works the same, someone with JES3 experience will have to advise you on that. HTH Peter P.S. -- I tried the following trick for string compares but the return code is still 0 and not 4 as one might hope: // SET S1=ABCD // SET S2=DEFG //* //TESTSTR EXEC PGM=AOPBATCH,REGION=32M, // PARM='awk BEGIN {if ("&S1" == "&S2") exit 0; else exit 4}' //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*,RECFM=VA,LRECL=250,BLKSIZE=254 //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDIN DD DUMMY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
