On 6 January 2016 at 14:04, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> //DD1 DD *,DLM=AA >> >> True. I've used $ quite a bit myself. But in the _general_ case, how can >> you guarantee that whatever characters you select will _not_ occur as the >> first two characters in the "sample" data?
And this all started with arbitrary (GOFF) files as input to SMP/E, which has, AFAIK, no delimiter option on e.g. the ++MOD statement. JCL isn't the only thing with this problem. A single GOFF file could plausibly contain records starting with ++ and // and /* . Tony H. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
