[Default] On 23 Feb 2017 12:59:08 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main bill.wood...@gmail.com (Bill Woodger) wrote:
>I don't think so either. There is documentation of the possibility of symbol >substitution, but nothing about placement of commas, nothing about >continuation symbols, and a piece about embedded blanks being possible. >Particularly this latter could be affected by the embedding of comments in >such a way. > >For the processing of the PARMDD data set(s), explicit documentation of the >processing of comments (if it is done) would be required. > >As far as I can tell, if you want to put PARM='LUMP', you could have: > >Dataset 1: L followed by blanks >Dataset 2: U followed by blanks >Dataset 3: M followed by blanks >Dataset 4: P folowed by blanks > >How would you tell, if that is possible, where a comment was? There's no >specified requirement to "break" at a specific column on on a comma, as one >long "string" of up to 32760 characters are created. The knowledge center says the processing strips out blanks and sequence numbers. I am not certain as to where a sequence number would be in format V or VB data sets or Unix files. Is there a manual that goes into excruciating detail as to how this works? The JCL reference doesn't. You can use symbols and system symbols if the parm data is instream. I agree with your example and suspect the only way to tell for sure is to run tests which I can't do without a system. Clark Morris > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
