On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:53:44 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
>I'm trying to use system symbols in batch JCL under z/OS 2.1. Specifically,
>I'd like to create a DSN like this:
>
Doesn't work for me, either:
6 //FOO DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&SYSUID..&LYYMMDD..&LHHMMSS
IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - DISP=SHR,DSN=gil.&LYYMMDD..&LHHMMSS
7 //
>I read that system symbols must be enabled by class, which I did for class A:
>$HASP837 JOBCLASS(A) SYSSYM=ALLOW
>
>But it looks like my job is failing at conversion and never getting to
>execution. Shouldn't this be easy? ;-)
>
How can I query that setting? If simply &SYSSYM were itself a symbol
I could use it would be too easy; IBM would never do it that way.
-- gil
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