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by **fuuss** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:50 pm

Hello

I am still facing a little problem
I just wrote a job that starts a Rexx program with a special parameter, this works great but the next step of my program is
that I can input the JCL with the parameter like "sub FTPPT 081207 and this variable, if it is <> '' will be passed over to the Rexx

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//* JOB STATEMENT
//S1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1A,DYNAMNBR=200
//SYSEXEC DD DSN=CISYSCL.REXX.EXEC,DISP=SHR
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
%FTPPT2 12121212
/*

Fuuss

by **MrSpock** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:28 pm

I honestly don't understand your question.

All I can say at this point is that all of the steps of a job are independent from each other. Data can't be passed from one step to another. It has to be stored externally (i.e. in a dataset). Only then can it be shared.

by **fuuss** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:39 pm

So it is not possible to start the JCL with a parameter like "JCLPRG 120979"
I did this already with a RExx but I am searching the same in JCL
EX REx

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/* rexx */
PARSE ARG tempd /

with this parse i can input a variable

I hope I explained it better

Thanks

by **MrSpock** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:56 am

Are you talking about using the JCL SET statement to assign a value to a variable to be used within the JCL?

by **Bill Dennis** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:40 pm

You cannot supply a JCL variable and have it inserted into a control statement for SYSTSIN. If you have a fixed number of values, you could create control members in a PDS and point to the member name using a symbolic variable.

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//SYSTSIN DD DSN=my.ftp.pds(#081208),DISP=SHR

by **fuuss** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:05 pm

Hmm ok thanks for the replies

I found a solution I will take in the string from a file

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//FILE JCLLIB ORDER=(CISYSCL.JOB.FTP.CNTL)
// INCLUDE MEMBER=FTPFILE

Thank you very much

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