On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:53:16 +0800, David Crayford wrote:

>On 2020-03-10 8:40 PM, Allan Staller wrote:
>> SYSSYM=ALLOW In JES2 $JOBCLASS parameter.
> 
Does using CNVTSYS or EXECSYS in the absence of ALLOW cause a JCL error?

>Nice! Didn't know about that. Can't rely on it for shipping code though 
>so SYMBOLS=JCLONLY is still the go for vendors.
>
It's regrettable that:
o There's no way for the vendor to supply a default for an undefined symbol.
o Use of an undefined symbol isn't reported as an error.
o The Ref. doesn't specify which dominates when both a JCL and a SYSTEM
  symbol definition are available.

-- gil

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