On 2020-04-20, at 10:29:30, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > On 4/19/2020 11:24 PM, Windt, W.K.F. van der (Fred) wrote: >> DC CL8'&RQS' > > For such a case, I will always code: > > DC CL8'&RQS. ' > Does that truncate properly, but quietly if: o &RQS is 8 bytes? o &RQS is 9 bytes? (Should warn.)
Is the "." necessary, or just a Best Practices habit? Regardless, I prefer to report bugs instead, or at least in addition to circumventing them. IBM too frequently regards the left boundary condition as pathological. -- gil
