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

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