On 1/11/2012 6:42 AM, McKown, John wrote:
What is the big deal? Well, I remember how everybody complains when IBM "steps on" their macro name. But, if you name your internal macro with a _ in it, which is valid in an HLASM symbol, but which cannot be easily used in a PDS member name, the probability of IBM "stepping on" it is greatly reduced. And you should be able to use the subdirectory name in your batch compiles simply by including it in the SYSLIB for the assembler. From looking, _ is the only such character.
Clever! You can also define exotically-named macros within a member that you COPY into your program, e.g. member MYMACS can define macros _A, _B, _C etc. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
