On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:52:31 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>In answer to your other question, the two semicolons are accepted (required?)
>perhaps because MVS in its wisdom adds a comma in there.
>
Isn't that the comma that *you* typed?
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 08:40:15 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>//BPXARCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,COND=(4,LT),
>// PARM=('SH cd &CSOURCE/Object;',
>// ';ar -rvc MyArchive.a #MEMBER#.o')
And doesn't stderr show a syntax error on the comma?
Circumventions:
o Use symbol substitution to avoid the need for continuation.
o Use PARMDD
o Use STDPARM
o Use a silly command substitution to devour the comma (Ugh!):
>//BPXARCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,COND=(4,LT),
>// PARM=('SH cd &CSOURCE/Object; $(: ',
>// '); ar -rvc MyArchive.a #MEMBER#.o')
-- gil
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