Tried that, same results, BUT . . .
I found the problem and it is COBOL-related, no JCL or PARM weirdness applies.
The PROCEDURE DICISION statement did not specify the PARM-FIELDS variable in
the LINKAGE SECTION as a parameter.
The program just has:
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
Instead of the required:
PROCEDURE DIVISION USING PARM-FIELDS.
Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.
Peter
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Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 6:20 PM
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Subject: Re: Adding a PARM to a PROCSTEP where no PARM is coded
On 2019-12-17 17:42, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
> I thought I know this stuff, but my employer's z/OS V2.2 system is saying I
> don't.
>
> I have a simple one-step PROC which executes a COBOL program but has no
> keyword parameters on the EXEC statement, like this:
>
> //MYPROC PROC OUT=*
> //MYPGM EXEC PGM=MYPGM
> //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=&OUT
> // PEND
>
> MYPGM is compiled with COBOL V5.2 and has a LINKAGE SECTION like this:
>
> LINKAGE SECTION.
> 01 PARM-FIELDS.
> 05 PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(04) COMP.
> 05 PARM-AREA PIC X(25).
>
> When I code the following execution of MYPROC, there is apparently NO PARM
> passed to MYPGM:
>
> //STEP01 EXEC MYPROC,PARM.MYPGM='PARM,DATA,'
>
> When displayed by the program, PARM-LENGTH has a value of (decimal) +10 but
> when PARM-AREA is displayed it shows unprintable hex characters.
>
> .......÷.........Ùf&....".0
> 0000003E000000000F8500007FF
> 0A000101000000000D600000FF0
>
> Am I crazy? Shouldn't PARM-AREA in this case print as "PARM,DATA,"? The hex
> data that prints instead looks to me suspiciously like the contents of
> address 0 in the LPAR, but I could be wrong about that.
>
> Pete
What happens if you use:
//STEP01 EXEC MYPROC,PARM.MYPGM='/PARM,DATA,'
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