The Start System/36 Procedure (STRS36PRC) command starts a System/36 procedure. It is valid whether or not the System/36 Environment is active, but it is not valid if a System/36 procedure is already running. It cannot be placed in a procedure or in a program that is called by a procedure.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
PRC	Procedure	Name	Required, Positional 1
CURLIB	Current library	Name, *SAME	Optional, Positional 2
PARM	Procedure parameters	Character value	Optional, Positional 3

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Procedure (PRC)

Specifies the name of the System/36 procedure to run. The procedure is a member of source physical file QS36PRC. The library search order for locating QS36PRC is:

1. current library (*CURLIB)
2. #LIBRARY
3. job library list (*LIBL)

This is a required parameter.

Current library (CURLIB)

Specifies the current library to use to run the System/36 procedure.

*SAME

The current library does not change. If the current library is *CRTDFT and *SAME is specified, the current library is set to #LIBRARY.

library-name

Specify the name of the library you want to use for the current library while running the System/36 procedure.

Procedure parameters (PARM)

Specifies procedure parameters for the procedure. Procedure parameters allow information to be passed to the procedure. If no parameters are specified, no parameters are passed to the procedure.

Examples

Example 1: Changing the Current Library

STRS36PRC   PRC(PROC1)  CURLIB(MYLIB)

This command changes the current library to MYLIB and runs procedure PROC1.

Example 2: Listing Files Used by the System

STRS36PRC   PRC(CATALOG)  PARM('ALL,F1')

This command lists all files used by the System/36 environment.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

SSP0010

System/36 job ended abnormally.