This is easy to fix by having at least one symbol that will be dropped. Simply equate a symbol that falls in the range before you do the dropsym. By the way it's closer to wildcarding than a range.
address IPCS "EQUATE XXXX 0" /* assign XXXX to eliminate DROPSYM message */ "DROPSYM X:Y NOSUMMARY" /* drop anything from X to Y */ Jon Perryman. From: "Hardee, Chuck" <chuck.har...@thermofisher.com> >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 7:57 AM >Subject: Re: An IPCS question > > >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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
