Sheesh! Thanks all for your input. And to think I thought it was just that I didn't know what I was doing. I thought one of you would say "you dummy -- you need to double the apostrophes and put it all in parentheses" or something like that.
I "solved" the problem by splitting it in two. I was able to get the lower case letters out of there by moving the information to a //SYSLIB DD PATH= statement. Now the solution to the rest of the problem is just // SET OPTS=(NOTEMPL,OE,OBJ,NOARG) . . . //COMPMAIN EXEC CBCC,CPARM=&OPTS (In case anyone was wondering why I wanted to take a perfectly good PARM= parameter and make it into a problematic SET symbol: there are multiple compile jobsteps in the job and I got tired of changing the compile PARM= in more than one place. Also, this way I can readily alternatively comment out or use various sets of compile options. I might also use set symbols for multiple sets of compile options that I could concatenate together as appropriate -- but you have to save some fun for another day.) Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
