No simple way, but with a compiler exit you could suppress them. Never used this feature, so someone else would have to chip in, or you could ask in comp.lang.pl1, or the PL/I mailing list.
Then again, looking at the manual, specifying "MARGINS(2,72)" in your pre ' /*" new process statements might do the trick. Robert On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 17:50, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah! What am I doing wrong? My default font is proportional and I missed > that leading blank before the comment /*. I thought it was a JCL > end-of-file /*. > > Now, yes, it works as you describe. The source file *PROCESS statements > get absorbed into the following comments. This is brilliant! > > I am down to one problem, a problem with the *'s in column 1 of the > PROCESS statements -- now commented out -- in the source file: > > IBM2605I W 6.0 Invalid carriage control character. Blank > assumed. > IBM2605I W 7.0 Invalid carriage control character. Blank > assumed. > IBM2605I W 8.0 Invalid carriage control character. Blank > assumed. > IBM2605I W 9.0 Invalid carriage control character. Blank > assumed. > > That gives me a 4 return code, which screws up the bigger process that > this is all part of. Any easy way to get around that warning? > > Charles > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:18:52 +0000, Robert Prins < > [email protected]> wrote: > > >There should be, assuming that you use "margins(2,72,1)", a space before > >the '/*' comment in your sysin. It works because PL/I doesn't allow nested > >comments, so the '/*' will just match on the first '*/' ignoring any '/*' > >in between. The 2506W message seems to indicate that the '/' is in column > 1 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org The hitchhiking grandfather <https://prino.neocities.org/index.html> Some REXX code for use on z/OS <https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
