On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:37:23 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >> It would be a favor to customers if there were a standard system symbol >> evaluating to nothing with a name as short as possible. >> >&NULL or &SYSNULL > Is that a suggestion? They seem not to exist on the system I usually use.
Regardless, they fail a mentioned desideratum in that they restrict the resolved DSN to 39 or 36 characters respectively. A minimal symbol name such as &N would allow 42. Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
