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sergeyken

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2023 8:53 pm
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The manual says:
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&JOBNAME
The name of the job. Shown in 1-8 characters. In the special case when the job name is *MASTER*, &JOBNAME resolves to #MASTER# to avoid the error of using the asterisk as part of a data set name.
Under z/OS®, it is valid to define a user ID that is all numeric. Under z/OS UNIX, this all-numeric user ID might be propagated as a job name in the case of a fork() or non-local spawn(); this can lead to allocation failures when &JOBNAME is used in substitution for a data set name.

If you specify the &JOBNAME dynamic system symbol in a START command for a started task, the resolved substitution text for &JOBNAME is the name of the job assigned to the address space that calls the symbolic substitution service, not the address space of the started task.


But when used with regular JCL submit from ISPF, the result is not the name from the JOB statement, but always as if it was set:
Code:
// SET JOBNAME='JES2'


Any idea?
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Leonard Peters

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:16 am
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I don't know if you have figured it out but, a simple solution would be to have a Set job='abcjob1' you would just create a symbolic called JOB or whatever you wanted. Then you could include it in file names or even //sysin dd *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY (If you want to pass it to a pgm or utility)
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sergeyken

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:42 am
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Leonard Peters wrote:
I don't know if you have figured it out but, a simple solution would be to have a Set job='abcjob1' you would just create a symbolic called JOB or whatever you wanted. Then you could include it in file names or even //sysin dd *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY (If you want to pass it to a pgm or utility)

OMG!…

Of course I can set MY OWN variables, as many as I want.

The question is completely different: why the standard dynamic JCL symbol supposed to define the job name, instead of its definition is always set to constant ‘JES2’?
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Joerg.Findeisen

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 1:14 pm
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If you specify the &JOBNAME dynamic system symbol in a START command for a started task, the resolved substitution text for &JOBNAME is the name of the job assigned to the address space that calls the symbolic substitution service, not the address space of the started task.

The AS that seems to call the symbolic substitution service will always be JES2 here, hence the result. I have no other explanation, even thou it might not be fully covered by the manuals description yet.
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