I recall similar experiences with x'00' in my JCL and it never worked; going back at least to XA.
On Tue Mar 20 13:20 , 'JONES, CHARLIE' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >We are on z/OS 1.7 - This morning we had a JCL error and determined that >the cause was >An x'00' (null) between a STEPNAME and its corresponding EXEC directive. >We changed >The null to a x'40' (space) and everything worked fine. The programmer >that created the JCL >Claims that the JCL with the embedded null worked okay under z/OS 1.4 >during testing. I'm >Not sure I believe that. Anyone with knowledge of the effect of nulls >in JCL and any behaviorial >Changes between z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 1.7. > >Charlie > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
