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stansaraczewski · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject: including procs when editing jcl

Is there a way short of writing a macro to display INCLUDEs and PROCs while editing or browing JCL ?

One has to 'hop around' to see what a certain PROC or INCLUDE does... would be nice to pull it into the active session.

I am using ISPF.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject:

issue a command line copy dsn(mbr)
with an A on the line after which you want to place the proc.
if your version of ISPF does not support that convention,
just issue a copy and then use the extended copy panel that will be displayed.
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semigeezer · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject:

another method is to submit a job with typrun=scan and an appropriate msglevel in the job card and look at the output of the expanded proc in the SDSF (or iof or sysview or ejes or ...). A helpful tool is to write an edit macro to turn that back into (semi)usable JCL. I have one at http://sillysot.com/ftp/se2jcl.txt but that version is a little old and may have some bugs. If I can ever find the password to that website (haven't updated it in a while) I'll upload a later version, though what is there should work OK.

I would advise against trying to do substitution yourself. There are too many variables to consider (where does the proc reside, set statements, jcllib statements, formatting oddities, inline JCL in DATA statements, etc).
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stansaraczewski · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject:

Thank you both for your suggestions.

Bill Dennis · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:15 pm Post subject:

I once had an EDIT macro called SHOWPROC that placed the PROC inline as MSG lines. Can't remember where I found it. I think it was an MVS help site or maybe it was www.CBTTAPE.org. You provided the DSNs of the PROCLIBs and it looks thru the list for the first matching member.
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