Gary, The LE runtime is interpreting the slash as the way to pass LE execution parameters. If your data parm has a trailing slash, add a second one like this:
//PS020 EXEC PGM=GPDIRLNK,PARM='S:\Technical Documentation\\' See the Language Environment manuals for more info. Dave ________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Principal Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 616.653.8429 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerry Palmer Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 3:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: EXEC PARM "bug" or "feature"? I've run into an oddity when passing an EXEC PARM to a COBOL program. I don't see anything in the JCL reference that seems to directly address this, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something. This is on a z/OS 1.4 system. Basically, it seems that if the last character of the EXEC PARM string is a forward slash, that character is stripped from the PARM value before the parameter string is passed to my COBOL program. I can get a trailing forward slash passed to the COBOL program by coding two trailing slashes in the PARM= value, but the only mention I see in the JCL reference of a need to "double up" on characters in the PARM= string is for ampersands and apostrophes. Embedded forward slashes are passed as expected; only the final trailing slash is stripped from the parameter string value (so there's no need to "double up" on every forward slash, just the last one). This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
