John/Gil,
I don't think you can guarantee any combination specified will work, but it's
all we have for instream data. I think that careful scrutiny of the data might
help make a more informed choice.
Cliff McNeill
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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of John McKown
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 12:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Use of LQ results in ASMA080E?!
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, McNeill,Cliff <[email protected]>
wrote:
> From JCL Reference, DD Stmt, DLM parameter
>
> Use the DLM parameter to specify a delimiter to terminate this
> in-stream data set. When the DLM parameter assigns a different
> delimiter, the in-stream data records can include standard delimiters,
> such as /* and //, in the data.
>
> //DD1 DD *,DLM=AA
> .
> .
> data
> .
> 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?
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