dbenham wrote:That's fine. I know nothing about JCL.
But I was speaking in terms of a general solution for a template file with replaceable parameters.
I forgot there is one other restriction - line length is limited to ~8k
Dave Benham
We limit our JCL to 80 characters per line. On the network side we put line numbers down the side out to 120 characters but when you upload it to the job scheduler on the mainframe it truncates down to 80.
Now I just need to find out if JCL ever uses the exclamation mark for anything. I doubt we use it.