-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 16:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: System Symbols Question
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:35:19 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: > >Having said that, we are considering a convention under which symbol >values can be longer than the symbol name, with the user's >understanding that any truncation that results may be ignored. > I would much favor a convention that reports the truncation as an error. Then it's up to the caller to handle or ignore it. -- gil I second that. Assignments and therefor truncations can occur anywhere at any time (IEASYM at IPL, or with SYMUPDTE during the life of the system). I rather have a couple of abends if I do something wrong, than time consuming searches for who set the symbol and had it truncated during the previous weeks of the life of the system. Comparing SAS: each new release checks the rules more strictly and each new release generates a numbers of RC > 0, where the previous gave RC=0. This generates a lot of work each time and I wished they had not been so tolerant from the beginning. Kees. ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
