John P. Baker wrote:
Yes, it does.Please refer to SA22-7597-11 z/OS V1R9.0 MVS JCL Reference, page 16-22. Examples 3 and 4 demonstrate clearly that a comma (",") will be inserted between the parameters.
You're right. For some reason I remembered incorrectly that those "extra" commas were "eaten" by the system and not surfaced to the application. But, I guess not. :-(
That leaves only something like this as a solution: // SET SYMBOL1=A // SET SYMBOL2=B // SET SYMBOL3=C // SET SYM1X5=&SYMBOL1.&SYMBOL1.&SYMBOL1.&SYMBOL1.&SYMBOL1. //*.+....|....+....|....+....|....+....|....+....|....+....|....+....|.. //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14, // PARM='&SYM1X5.x&SYMBOL2.y&SYMBOL3.z' -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

