On Thursday, 08/20/2020 at 04:43 GMT, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
> With what restriction on the compound symbol namespace? > Of course if all supported tags are legal compound tails > there is no restriction. The name space of REXX variables is a subset of tag names. You can put almost any character, printable or not, in a tag name; not so much with REXX variables. In theory that's a problem. In reality, it isn't. I've been converting tag names to REXX variables (tail or simple) for 30 years and it hasn't tripped me up so far. However, given enough monkeys and typewriters, you get TCP/IP APAR PH06391 (3/2019). It was a problem where someone put a comment in the DTCPARMS files as :* instead of .* and TCPRUN tried to set a REXX variable name with an asterisk in it. Oops. So now it ignores tags that aren't made from characters REXX allows. User error, but we changed the program to be more tolerant of human frailty. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM Systems Lab Services IBM Z Delivery Practice ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott
