<snip>
(NO)SETABOOL - If it's unset
(default), behaviour as today; if set, then SETA 0 is treated as False,
and SETA (anything else) as True?
</snip>

Just a point: any option like this might have to be documented for use 
only when no ISV- or IBM-provided macros are invoked with the new option, 
if it's possible that a behavioral change could cause the macro not to 
function as it "always has". I don't know about individual ISVs, but I 
don't see IBM spending resources to validate that our huge set of macros 
works with respect to a new option, let alone make changes if something 
does not work.

So you're welcome to use such an option on your own code and with your own 
macros, but any risk with respect to macros that you don't own would be 
yours to bear.

Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design

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