Recently we upgraded from z/OS 1.13 to z/OS 2.02 so that is why I am asking this question so late in the game.
I have been working with using In-Stream Symbol substitution, I have been waiting over 30 years for this!!!, but I digress, and I noticed a minor annoyance/problem when some of my symbols get substituted and maybe I can get some light shed on it. I have a set of 4 symbols that I EXPORT: //* YYYY -> 4 digit Year. //YYYY SET YYYY=2018 //* MM -> 2 digit Month //MM SET MM='03' //* M3Name -> 3 Charachter Month, 'JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR', .... //M3NAME SET M3NAME='MAR' //* MNAME -> Full Month Name. //MNAME SET MNAME='March' One use is in an invocation of IKJEFT01 & SYSTSIN DD: //SYSTSIN DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY BPXBATCH SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client &YYYY.-&MM..xls' Which substitutes the way I expect and want no blank spaces after 2018 & 03: BPXBATCH SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client 2018-03.xls' Now comes the fun part, in an invocation of SAS, it being SAS has nothing to do with it, just that it is the tool I am using for this particular activity and will explain the syntax. Within the SAS program I use the &MM., &M3NAME. and &MNAME. Symbols. First use of a symbol: WHERE=(MnthN = &MM.) Which translates into: WHERE=(MnthN = 03) No spaces again. Here is where I have a problem: Sheet_Name='Client &M3NAME. &YYYY.' I get: Sheet_Name='Client MAR 2018' See all those spaces between "MAR" and "2018"? It looks like the length is defined by the symbol name plus the "&." Characters, but why did I not get that with the &YYYY. And &MM.? I also have: Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of &MNAME. &YYYY."; Which gives me: Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of March 2018"; Maybe the fix is to make &M3NAME. be just &MMC. Or something like that, 3 characters for the symbol name, but going to have a problem with the full month name. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer III UF Information Technology East Campus P.O. Box 112050 Gainesville, FL. 32611 (e) ajn...@ufl.edu<mailto:ajn...@ufl.edu> (p) (352) 273-1298 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
