In <listserv%201010042237560303.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 10/04/2010
   at 10:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:

>And this is to be further tailored by customers.  Here, the
>significant advantage of CLIST over Rexx is in avoiding the
>apostrophe catastrophe.

As opposed to the Ampersand catastrophe. Not that CLIST does avoid the
apostrophe catastrophe; it just manifests in different ways, e.g.,
when dealing with fully qualified dataset names.

>Now I need to figure out how to get "&SYSUID" into tailored JCL
>without CLIST evaluating it.

What about &STR() and &STRNR()?
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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