How is the macro invoked?  On the SYSPLEX in question, do all users
experience the problem?  For a user who does, are any ALTLIBs in effect when
the error occurs?

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> Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 8:27 AM
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> Subject: Message IRX0006I running an edit macro CLIST
> 
> OK, this is a weird one. We have an old CLIST that runs as an ISPF edit
macro. On one
> sysplex only, this CLIST fails with a *Rexx* error message:
> 
> IRX0006I Error running JEM, line 2: Unmatched "/*" or quote
> 
> The actual line being complained about is included here:
> 
>   PROC 0  DJSNAME(SPP.JOBSCAN)
> /* COPYRIGHT DIVERSIFIED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, INC., 1991,1993.
>   CONTROL END(ENDO) NOMSG NOFLUSH
>   ISREDIT MACRO (PARMSTR)
> 
> Of course there is no closing '*/' in line 2, but it's a CLIST, not a
Rexx. The CLIST was last
> modified in 2007 according to ISPF stats. What appears to be exactly the
same CLIST
> works fine on other sysplexes. The z/OS maintenance level (RSU1705) is the
same on
> working and nonworking plexes. I have looked in SYSEXEC libraries and in
other
> SYSPROC libraries for a bogus copy of this exec; nothing found. The CLIST
library is VB;
> member is unnumbered, so data starts in column 9.
> 
> What might cause a CLIST to be misinterpreted as Rexx?

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