I'm questioning "a program could determine that PARM was not specified".
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: JCL EXEC PARM= default? On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:01:10 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> Meticulously distinguishing the case of PARM is absent from PARM='', >> possibly because a program could determine that PARM was not >> specified and take action different from PARM=''. > >No. The only way to distinguish them is to scan the JCL or the internal text. > Aren't you agreeing with me? "The only way" implies that one way exists. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
