I don't think so either. There is documentation of the possibility of symbol substitution, but nothing about placement of commas, nothing about continuation symbols, and a piece about embedded blanks being possible. Particularly this latter could be affected by the embedding of comments in such a way.
For the processing of the PARMDD data set(s), explicit documentation of the processing of comments (if it is done) would be required. As far as I can tell, if you want to put PARM='LUMP', you could have: Dataset 1: L followed by blanks Dataset 2: U followed by blanks Dataset 3: M followed by blanks Dataset 4: P folowed by blanks How would you tell, if that is possible, where a comment was? There's no specified requirement to "break" at a specific column on on a comma, as one long "string" of up to 32760 characters are created. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
