An alternative view is that this was documented behaviour way back, when bytes and cycles were a more expensive, and changing it now would be likely to break a few CLISTs and batch jobs that took advantage of that behaviour.
Roops On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, 20:47 Paul Gilmartin, < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:48:25 +0000, Joseph Reichmanwrote: > > >Would like to apologize I had syntax errors > >in my clist with the allocate and test > >commands > > > No, IBM should apologize to you and the rest of us for > inadequate syntax validation. > > It may be designed that way, but the design is bad. > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
