Operators

AutoEdit operators are used to add or subtract values from AutoEdit variables in the JCL. These operators can only be specified in a %%SET statement. Valid AutoEdit operators are shown in the following table:

Table 15 Valid AutoEdit Operators

Operator	Description
%%PLUS	Adds a value to an AutoEdit variable.
%%MINUS	Subtracts a value from an AutoEdit variable.

AutoEdit operators are generally used as follows:

%% SET variable=operand operator operand

where

operand is an expression that resolves to a numeric value.
operator is %%PLUS or %%MINUS.

Only one operator can be specified in each %%SET statement. Increase the number of generations (%%GENERATION_NUMBER) by one, as follows:

// %%SET %%GENERATION_NUMBER=%%GENERATION_NUMBER %%PLUS 1

If the value of %%GENERATION_NUMBER was initially 1, it is now set to 2.

Parent Topic

AutoEdit and JCL