Thanks all. It appears that the Y(APARMEND-APARMVAL) and AL2(APARMEND-APARMVAL) both work. I had tried the AL2, but left the quotes in rather than parens, and of course it failed.
________________________________ From: Dougie Lawson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [ASSEMBLER-LIST] Passing a parm between to programs On 2 October 2012 18:09, Fred Rodgers <[email protected]> wrote: > >000280 194 APARMLST DC H'APARMEND-APARMVAL' >** ASMA074E ILLEGAL SYNTAX IN EXPRESSION - APARMEND-APARMVAL' >** ASMA104W STATEMENT PROCESSING INCOMPLETE > You can't do evaluation in a H'...' half word definition. Try using APARMLST DC Y(APARMEND-APARMVAL) -- http://twitter.com/DougieLawson
