> Does anybody know of a little utility program that can be placed in a
batch
> job that would then prompt the console for a reply and it would then set a
> variable based on the reply before moving on?  I'm not looking for
variable
> replacement at stream time but rather variable creation during execution
of
> a job.

On 6.5 you can do the following in your job:

!job xxx,yyy.zzz...
!...
!input reply_var,"Prompt to console";readlen=L;wait=W;default=D;CONSOLE
!# you have the console operator reply in the variable named "reply_var".
!...
!eoj

L -- allows you do limit the number of characters accepted as input
W -- causes the input command to complete even if no reply is given,
     after a specified number of seconds
D -- let you define a default value in the case of no reply or a timeout

HTH,
 Jeff Vance, CSY

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