From: Ron Horner@ILGW  on 01/28/98 07:02 AM


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Subject:  CI Macros

You can use the VESOFT program STREAMX to construct loops within JCL.
Commands can be execution prior to job submission to the system.  So that,
your JCL may have a simple loop, but what is submitted are the repeated
commands.

If you want more info, let me know.

Thanks!

>>Greg Stigers said
>>Is there a reasonable way to set up a kind of macro within a job stream?
>>I want to avoid cluttering up the system with command files that are
>>used in a single job stream.
>>
>>I have a job stream that builds a list of groups for a new account. Much
>>of this is pretty simple stuff, so that all I have to change is the job
>>card for the new account, and set a couple of variables for things such
>>as group name and volume set. But the NEWGROUP logic is all of a kind,
>>using !HPACCOUNT, !HPSTREAMEDBY, etc. If I could collapse these
>>recurring lines to a single macro, it would greatly simplify that part
>>of the job, shortening it, and I hope reduce the clutter.
>>
>>The best ideas I can come up with are to build the command file with
>>echoes as a temp file, or to create a rather large environment variable
>>that uses the other environment variables, and that seems to me an
>>inobvious solution.



Ron Horner

Systems Programmer

Stone Container Corporation

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