While &foo may be either a temporary dsn or a symbol reference, &&foo resolves to &foo and can only be a temporary dsn. Absent a symbol definition for foo, the two forms are equivalenr.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Grant Taylor [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 10:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: LISTSERV Trivia: Deleting drafts? On 8/28/23 6:35 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > I'll copy/paste a couple lines from: > <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=parameters-character-sets> > Let's see how what appears on the forum compares with > the original: Thank you for the clarification Paul. > && To identify a temporary data set name, for example, > &&TEMPDS, and, to identify an in-stream or sysout data set name, > for example, &&PAYOUT I would expect that to be "&&TEMPDS". Sadly, the way that IBM constructs their sight, using content dynamically loaded by JavaScript, makes it difficult to find the underlying HTML. -- Grant. . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
