Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Questions like yours are probably the main reason that INCLUDE libraries were defined and allowed by JES -- if the 2000+ sets of JCL used INCLUDE statements for the JOBLIB, then you'd have to change one member of the INCLUDE library and you'd be done with it. In some of the JCLs we have INCLUDE not...

Thanks Robert for your reply. Rather than spend the time to remove two libraries from 2000+ sets of JCL, why not create replacement load libraries for the two data sets and just put something innocuous in them (like IEFBR14)? Then your group can clean up the JCL as you make other JCL modifications o...

Hi, We had been using CA products but they have decommissioned. Though there was an email from System Teams but for some reason the Team responsible has forgot to remove two of the data sets from a list of JCLs. Pattern 1: //JOBLIB DD DSN=PROD.USDTE.LOADLIB,DISP=SHR // DD DSN=PROD.STAGE.LOADLIB,DISP...

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Can we use Redefines in linkage section?

My answer was yes but then I was aksed what can be such a need to use Redefines in linkage section, which I could not answer, Could someone please help on that.

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