On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 20:26:49 +0000, Seymour J Metz  wrote:
>
>    //SYSBAR DD    DSN=&MYPRM,DISP=(MOD,PASS)
>
>Is valid. At the time IBM defined the syntax, there were no symbolic 
>parameters. Changing that to invalid would break every job that used a single 
>ampersand for a temporary dataset name.
>
>Do I like it? No, but that ship has sailed.
>
Ob 10 April 1912

-- gil

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