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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:21:24 EST
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- From: Gary Buhrmaster <TJF@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
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- JES2 4.2 tends to only use the extended OUTPUT JCL information to build
- its header pages. That information is passed in the output processing
- section of the NJE headers. You could make a mod to RSCS or JES to
- move the 8 character NJE DEPT and BUILDING information to an output
- processing section, or change the JES2 to use the basic (8 character)
- fields. The sample exit 1 supplied with JES2 (in SAMPLIB) could
- probably be modified to do what you want. Some keywords (such as ROOM)
- are extracted from the JCT if the extended information is not provided,
- but DEPT or BUILDING are not specially handled.
-
- The real culprit here, in my opinion, is RSCS, in that it does not
- directly supporting the building of output processing sections from TAG
- information. From the VM side, the output processing section
- information is taken only from the XAB, and unless you have PSF (or
- write yourself a PIPEs exec), you normally don't create an XAB. RSCS
- will never build an output processing section from TAG information (or
- merge it, which would be even more desirable). DEPT and BUILDING are
- only one example of the more general problem of using the equivalent of
- extended OUTPUT JCL to prepare output for processing. And many of the
- OUTPUT keywords do not even have NJE header equivalents, which means
- that building an output processing section is a requirement to pass the
- information. It would be nice if RSCS would support an extended DEPT
- field if I specify it, and place it in the output processing section.
- Of course then you run into the TAG limit of 130 characters very
- quickly (such as with 4 fields of 60 characters each for the ADDRESS
- field). Perhaps it is time to abandon TAG for new options and just
- start using the XABs.
-
- Gary
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