How to change dates in a jcl using Rexx? And more....

expat · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:33 pm

Hi Dick,

I can only recall CMS from my dark and distant experiences of VM. Very dark experiences I may add.

Sure that we used datasets or files to do something similar

dick scherrer · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:23 am

Hi Expat,

Yup, my experience was distant as well. As i recall this sort of thing was done in xedit or REXX. It has just been so long that i do not recall the actual code used. Over time we learn more (hopefully), but things learned and not used tend to fade away

Hi Lee,

Yes, i do get the gist of what you are working on. I just cannot recall how we did that in detail. I do believe that REXX inside xedit is a good way to proceed.

There are some "date" samples here:http://www.texasrock.com/examples.shtml

Good Luck and i'll keep trying to remember and/or see if i've still got any of it filed away somewhere.

Ditchital · New User Joined: 24 Aug 2022 Posts: 1 Location: Ireland

Hi everyone, great to see you all responding to this query, however, when posting JCL examples bear in mind we are talking about VSE and VSE JCL and not an MVS environment. Rexx itself has a very powerful built-in date function.
If you are generating JCLs for VSE under CMS, you could possibly generate include members via CMS rexx and let the submit dynamically bring them into the JCL jobstream, if my memory serves me right!! there are possibly quite a few alternatives, but without knowing exactly how you have things set up, it is difficult to come up with the most appropriate one.

Joerg.Findeisen · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:37 pm

Thank you so much for resurrecting a 15 year old topic. Please, start a new thread if necessary, makes more sense.