On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:51:23 -0400, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: >"If the command contains special characters or blanks, enclose it in single >quotation marks." > >Might not be the best example, but it's clear from the doc that whoever wrote >it doesn't understand that unassigned Rexx variables return their literal >values.
Actually, it appears to be correct if unnecessary, and nothing to do with the REXX syntax. I'm not all that familiar with SDSF, but after a little experiment I'm guessing the quotes either were required at some point in the past or are needed on some but not all commands. I get the same results from these two commands to list my own jobs, with and without single quotes: "ISFEXEC ST GSK*" "ISFEXEC 'ST GSK*'" If I put the command in double quotes instead: 'ISFEXEC "ST GSK*"' I get an error telling me it's looking for quotes but not that kind: ISF302E """ was seen in command position 9 where one of the following was expected: /, QUOTED-STRING, UNQUOTED-STRING. So I think this instruction really is about the actual command as evaluated, not the syntax of specifying it in REXX. ¬R ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
