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shiv_swami · Beginner Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 68 Topics: 14

Hi All,

I have JCL in a dataset. shiv.util(bkp)

JCL

superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

Personally, I have no idea what it is you wish to do, and what problem you are experiencing.

Phantom · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:09 am Post subject:

Shiv,

Did u try File Tailoring Skeletons in REXX ? It can replace a string and also submit your job. Or you can write a small rexx to do the REPLACE operation, invoke it from jcl (IKJEFT1A) as the first step.

Does the replacing string 'xxxxyyyy' contain any date ? If so, you can even use SORT. There are many ways to do it. Could you pls give us more information so that we can suggest better alternatives.

Thanks,
Phantom

shiv_swami · Beginner Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 68 Topics: 14

Thanks Phantom,

I am trying to achieve this.

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:24 am Post subject:

What about this ?

shiv_swami · Beginner Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 68 Topics: 14

Thanks very much O.

This is Just what the doctor ordered for me . With the above solution I execute rexx code to submit jobs iteratively whereas my earlier posts were looking at a solution which would be a JCL to execute a REXX code and REXX code in turn will pull dataset name and the "string to be replace."
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Regards,
Shivprakash

Phantom · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:06 am Post subject:

Shiv,

ISPF commands (ISPEXEC) will work in batch mode but thatz NOT so Easy. You need to allocate ISPPLIB (Panel Lib), ISPMLIB (Message Lib), ISPTLIB (Table Lib), SYSEXEC, SYSPROC and other ISPF related libraries to do this.

But Don't worry. The following link contains a REXX macro called BATCHPDF. Download this code into your mainframe system and store it in your REXX libraries. Then, Open a empty member and invoke BATCHPDF from the command line. It will create you a JCL which has the ability to call a REXX program with ISPF references.

Batchpdf code:
http://www.sillysot.com/ftp/batchpdf.txt

For more details on invoking REXX from JCL see my posts in this link.
http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=271&highlight=batchpdf

Hope this helps,

Thanks,
Phantom

Prasam · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:26 pm Post subject:

Phantom,

I tried running the JCL generated by the macro BATCHPDF specified by you.But on my system,the job is failing and iam getting the following message.

semigeezer · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject:

It means that you are not exiting ISPF cleanly or are getting an error message screen displayed in batch. Most likely you are not getting out of the editor completely. Remember that in batch mode, ISPF just presses enter on every screen so it is easy to get into a loop.