I have some JCL which backs up datasets, and passes in today’s date.
//IBMBAKU JOB 1,MSGCLASS=H,MSGLEVEL=(2,1)
//** IBS1 JCLLIB ORDER=USER.Z25D.PROCLIB
// SET TODAY=D&YYMMDD
//SG2 EXEC PROC=BACKUP,DD=&TODAY,P=COLIN.PKIICSF.C
Where YYMMDD is a dynamic symbol containing today’s date.
This JCL invokes
//BACKUP PROC P='USER.Z24C.PROCLIB',DD='UNKNOWN'
//S1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,REGION=0M,
// PARM='XMIT A.A DSN(''&P'') OUTDSN(''BACKUP.&DD..&P'')'
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
// PEND
This passes in the string D260630, which can be used in the PARM statement.
The XMIT creates a data set BACKUP.D260630.COLIN.PKIICSF.C incorporating today’s date.
Nothing new here.
It was a month or so ago that I last used it – and it worked fine.
Today it did not work! The reason was I had changed to a different z/OS image without “standard” configuration.
The JES2 definitions for the job classes needs SYSSYM=ALLOW
I did this on the console
$T JOBCLASS(a),SYSsym=allow
and my JCL started working again.
I changed my JES2 definitons in SYS1.PARMLIB(HASJES2) to have
/******************************************************************
* JOBCLASS Definitions
*******************************************************************/
JOBCLASS(A) COMMAND=DISPLAY,SYSSYM=ALLOW
so the definitions work after the next IPL.
ColinPaice 