Thanks Jon, this is the best explanation I've heard so far about why NOSUMMARY doesn't suppress the NO SYMBOLS DROPPED message.
I'll have to give some serious thought to adding conditional logic to the DROPSYM process. The biggest problem I have is that majority of the symbols being dropped are of a nature xxxx00000:xxxx99999 where the xxxx represents a prefix and the 00000 and 99999 are truly numbers, but could be 1, 2, 3, etc digits long making checking for conditions awkward, not impossible. I was hoping to avoid the overhead of calling IPCS to EVALSYM >= and <= to get the range to drop. Thanks to everyone who responded and to those who thought about it but didn't. :) Charles (Chuck) Hardee Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration CCG Information Technology Thermo Fisher Scientific 300 Industry Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15275 Direct: 724-517-2633 FAX: 412-490-9230 chuck.har...@thermofisher.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 10:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: An IPCS question The DROPSYM messages for symbols not found is information (not an error message). Setting FLAG( ) to any level will not suppress the message. It will produce the message so the only way to eliminate the message is to make DROPSYM conditional. The alternative is to direct it to print rather than terminal but that must be done using the SETDEF command. NOSUMMARY will eliminate the messages about symbols dropped but does not affect the symbols not found message. I don't think IBM has bothered to change this command because it has always worked. It's one of the few commands that doesn't support FLAG( ), PRINT/NOPRINT and TERMINAL/NOTERMINAL. Jon Perryman. >________________________________ > From: "Hardee, Chuck" <chuck.har...@thermofisher.com> > > > >I see no reason why one should have to make a DROPSYM conditional as you >suggest. > >You issue the command and, if you have NOSUMMARY, the command response should >be, well, nothing! >After all, that's what the NOSUMMARY is defined as meaning. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
