Shmuel, I am trying to follow what you are asking, but am unsure Are you saying there is something in a JCL environment that should be reported as an error, but it is not, until execution?
Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Sun, Dec 14, 2014 3:04 pm Subject: Re: Help please with symbols in a lower-case SET operand In <6785654506445698.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 12/12/2014 at 04:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> said: >I would be delighted if, rather, the parser reported a reference >to an undefined apparent symbol as a syntax error. That would break existing JCL. There seems to be a curious mix of things that work differently for no good reason aand things that are consistent with old behaviors whose reasons are no longer relevant. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN