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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories BCP_Supervisor
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 8, 2024

Enable use of OS Level Filtering in IEASYMxx member

We'd like the ability within a single IEASYMxx member to assign the value of a symbol based on the level of z/OS the system is IPLed under. 

SYSOSLVL(Z1020500)

SYMDEF (&PRDVER='V1')

SYSOSLVL(Z1030100)

SYMDEF (&PRDVER='V2')

 

This will aid in pre-staging any operating level system dependent symbol changes that are OS dependent.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Sep 22, 2024
    .An alternative that many customers use is to have a naming scheme for their sysres volume according to the z/OS release (for example, imagine the last 2 characters being the version and release) and thus be able to take advantage of the &SYSR1 symbol (and substrings of that symbol).to accomplish having a symbol that corresponds to the z/OS release.