JCL Accounting Information/ PANO

tangentray · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: JCL Accounting Information/ PANO

Hi,

I have designed a job which will be submitted by multiple users from different groups, naturally their accounting numbers/pano will change.
Is there some way I can modify the jobcard, maybe use some system variables so that the PANO is automatically resolved at runtime depending on who submits the job.

My system folks told me to use the system variable ZACCTNUM to get it and it is possible to get it through ISPF commands (ISPEXEC VGET ZACCTNUM SHARED) but that cannot be used in a JCL directly.

Please note that

expat · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

OK, so what are you doing in your REXX / CLIST ? Do you process the VGET ?

Are you using ISPF file tailoring to build the JCL and using variable substitution ?

tangentray · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

Nope, I am absolutely not using REXX/CLIST here.

It is a simple job which the users would submit. It might be argued that then why not the users change the PANO just before submitting it manually, as an answer, they would not get hold of the jcl directly, let us just say it is something like an internal reader submission.

expat · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, You would need to use REXX or CLIST to perform the VGET and then substitute the required value into a JCL skeleton to submit.

tangentray · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

Yes I kind of already figured that out.

I wanted to know if there is any other way.

expat · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject:

Not that immediately springs to mind

enrico-sorichetti

when an organization does not want to write an ISPF applications for user job submission

the alternative is to use the tso submit exit ....

tangentray · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject:

All depends on effort spent vs returns gained equation doesn't it?