On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:50:04 +0000, Lars Höglund wrote: > >Do You the reason why the default for SYSSYM is DISALLOW? > Obsession with compatibility. It's possible that someone, somewhere, has a "dusty old deck" containing a string matching the name of a system symbol which would break with ALLOW. By making the default DISALLOW, IBM passes the onus of such a failure to the customer's sysadmin.
This would never have been a problem if JCL made reference to undefined symbols a syntax error. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
