It should be in upper case
Edouard A. Myers Acting Manager of Technical Services Office of the Chief Technology Officer DC Government 222 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20001 Phone : 202-727-4017 Fax: 202-727-3880 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.octo.dc.gov -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Duplicate temporary dataset names On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:02:19 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>//SYSEXEC DD DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=&&amp;SYSEXEC > >>Trying the &, I get: >> IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER a ON THE DD STATEMENT >> IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER m ON THE DD STATEMENT >> IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER p ON THE DD STATEMENT >> IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER ; ON THE DD STATEMENT > >>What's the secret here? > >Use HTML syntax for HTML and JCL syntax for JCL. That '&' is HTML >syntax and has no place in JCL. Use > The problem is not with the poster, it is with LISTSERV's web interface. I've seen the problem happen a few times with me also since I post from there. I think there was mention in another thread recently about the same or similar problem with IBMLINK 2000 (that will be fixed IIRC in the next IBMLINK update). Just to prove it... the line below has DSN=%%TEMP but change the percents to ampersands. DSN=&&TEMP Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
