It sailed; I didn't say it arrived at port.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 3:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Trying to use long parm= in started task On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 20:26:49 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > //SYSBAR DD DSN=&MYPRM,DISP=(MOD,PASS) > >Is valid. At the time IBM defined the syntax, there were no symbolic >parameters. Changing that to invalid would break every job that used a single >ampersand for a temporary dataset name. > >Do I like it? No, but that ship has sailed. > Ob 10 April 1912 -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
