On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:11:58 -0700, Lizette Koehler (stars...@mindspring.com) wrote about "Re: Question about PARMDD" (in <11166244.8506.1487787118...@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net>):
> There is no one standard for Parmlib members and comments. > > You would need to see what the DB2 syntax is for this member. You need to remember that the PARMDD file is read in and concatenated into a character string. The notion of comments inside a character string is rather a strange one to me, as a programmer who has been doing string parsing for decades. As an illustration, it is directly analogous to putting comments into the PARM field: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=MYPROG,PARM='parm1, /* ignore this */ parm2' This requires the application to parse the PARM string in such a manner that the comment convention removes the comment text. The comment convention must, of necessity, be specific to the application program: there is no universal comment delimiter. My personal preference would be the one used in some ALGOL 68 implementations, the cent symbol '¢'. This would give us: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=MYPROG,PARM='parm1, ¢ ignore this ¢ parm2' It's more succinct than the PL/I comment notation used above, but anybody who has never used ALGOL 68 could find it confusing. But the bottom line is that PARMDD is *not* processed as a PARMLIB member, so comment lines are not applicable. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@googlemail.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
