How to pass parm value dynamically

ranjithmainframe · New User Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 39 Location: chennai

Hi,

Could you please help on this?.

I need to replace a symbolic with values in one step based on the value from the previous step.

In detail:

In a JCL, I am executing a huron module (objectstar rule) which displays a value in the hrnout (similar to sysout in cobol).
I need to extract that value from the hrnout and replace the parm parameter with this value that passing into another huron rule in the next step.

I can extract the value in the first step but I am struggling to replace the symbolic in the next step with this extracted value.

Any inputs would be more helpful.

Thanks in Advance!
Ranjith

expat · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:08 am

You can not do this dynamically because once the JCL has been interpreted by JES it is unchangeable. The interpretation takes place a t job entry time, before it runs.

If you can extract the value, write it to a dataset and then use that dataset as input to the following step(s)

ranjithmainframe · New User Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 39 Location: chennai

Thanks for your input Expat!

Since the step expect only the value instead of dataset, I have to read the extract the value and go for round about replacing the symbolic and submit the step in separete jcl.

Thanks Again.
Ranjith