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[ditto]

Hi - I need to get current year and subtract 1 from that and get the prior year. This prior year will be used as symbolic in the dataset name creation. My JCL will look like this but when I use &YR4 -1 does not work. Pls help me.

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//STEP001  EXEC PGM=EZACFSM1     
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*           
//SYSIN    DD DATA,DLM=@@       
// SET DTVAR    = &YR4           
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[NicC]

Do you know how many forum rules you broke with your first post when they should have been fresh in your mind? I have split your topic from the one that you hi-jacked/tailgated and applied the code tags.

[ditto]

Sorry Nicc... JCL related code, so just posted here...

[BillyBoyo]

If you look at the documentation for SET you'll find it doesn't do anything fancy like arithmetic expressions. Or anything.

So, what you want to do is not going to work.

The usual way to do this is with your Scheduler, so talk to your Scheduler people.

NicC, it seems you chopped my previous posting of this when you did the split

No biggie.

[NicC]

Billy, I think we were at it at the same time - your post wasn't there when I started but was when I finished!