No, but if you give it an input buffer "&THENAME" and the output ends up unchanged, then the symbol wasn't found (with RC=0).
Don't shoot the messenger - I don't like ASASYMBM much either :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:41:21 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: > > >>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. > > > Does that symbol substitution service indicate, via a return code, that it > failed to find a definition for the symbol? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
