The following CLIST can be used to read a line from dataset USERID.PARM1. Here FIL1 is symbolic name of the file.
ALLOC F(FIL1) DA(‘USERID.PARM1’) SHR REU OPENFILE FIL1 GETFILE FIL1 CLOSFILE FIL1 FREE FILE(FIL1) SET VAL1 = &SUBSTR(1:7,&FIL1) SET VAL2 = &SUBSTR(9:16,&FIL1) WRITE &VAL1 WRITE &VAL2
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