Good catch. In my recent SHARE pitch on system symbols, I strongly recommend that all installation-defined symbols be a full eight characters long regardless of initially anticipated value. In addition, I recommend that all such symbols be prefixed with an installation identifier, such as SHARE company code, to clearly identify them as user defined. This practice will also group installation symbols together in a D SYMBOLS display.
. . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Tom Marchant <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 01/22/2014 05:42 AM Subject: Re: System Symbols Question Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:39:36 -0800, Mark Regan wrote: >Can you set up a symbol that has a period in it? Yes, as others have said. >Example: > >SYMDEF(&IP1='121.122') No. As documented, "The length of the resolved substitution text cannot exceed the length of &symbol, including the ampersand on &symbol and excluding the single quotation marks on 'sub-text'." So your example is not valid. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
