On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:32:49 -0500, Bass, Walter W wrote: >Note in your example that lines 3 and 4 are NOT followed by message >IEFC653I as they would be if any symbol substitution took place.
Right >The >reason your example does not work is because when lines 3 and 4 are >evaluated, &MYSYM has not yet been assigned any value, therefore the JCL >processor does not yet consider it to be a symbol. Right. Paul provided that to show that your "solution" did not solve the problem that he wanted to solve, as follows: On 7/17/2012 3:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> Once a JCL symbol has been set, is there any way subsequently >> to restore it to exactly the state and behavior it had before it >> was set? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
