JCL RESTART= when using Nested Procs

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Nested JCL procs can be quite useful, but RESTART= seems to only allow
JOBSTEP.PROCSTEP and when you are doing nested procs, this is just not
enough. You would need something like JOBSTEP.NESTPROC.PROCSTEP or
JOBSTEP.NESTPROC1.NESTPROC2.NESTPROC3.PROCSTEP and so on. Looking at the
JCL manual, it appears that there is just no way to do such a restart for
nested procs if the step you want is WITHIN a nested proc. Anyone have
any way of getting around this? My scheduling program seems to deal with
it properly, but using the scheduler for my testing is a bit cumbersome.

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[Ted MacNEIL]

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Nested JCL procs can be quite useful

I started this job as a JCL jockey in 1981.
When did nested PROCs become available?
The last time I tried, I got a JCL error.


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PANIC!!

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[Edward Jaffe]

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Nested JCL procs can be quite useful

I started this job as a JCL jockey in 1981.
When did nested PROCs become available?
The last time I tried, I got a JCL error.

I believe it was MVS/ESA V4.
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[Hunkeler Peter , KIUB 34]

MVS/ESA V3 (1988) implemented all those JCL enhancements
like nested PROCs, SET, IF-THEN-ELSE, INCLUDE, JCLLIB,
and promoted many DCB subparameters to independent parameters.

Peter Hunkeler
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[Ted MacNEIL]

MVS/ESA V3 (1988) implemented all those JCL enhancements like nested PROCs

Old dog? New tricks?

Of course, I haven't had to really do substantial JCL coding since the early 1980's.
Live & learn (even if it is 20 years later).

It's amazing how hard it is to keep up, especially with stuff outside your direct responsibilities!

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