>we need to query these symbolic names from an exit. really? care to share why? It is quite unusual to have to "query" a system symbol.
The case I usually think of is "I have a string, I support symbolics, I call the symbol substitution service to do whatever it, according to its documentation, chooses to do". And if the customer used a symbol that they had failed to define, then they get what they get, which is usually something that has bad syntax because "&SYM" is not usually what a parser would be looking for. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
