On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:37:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>I believe the only comparisons supported by IF are to a result, such as a 
>return
>code, of a previous step.

All examples given do indeed lead one to believe that, but the actual 
documentation does not specify such a requirement. It does say that the parts 
to be compared in the expression must be numeric.


https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieab600/relationexp.htm
 says:
<quote>
A relational-expression consists of:
Comparison operators
Logical operators
NOT (¬) operators
Relational-expression keywords
Numeric values
</quote>


I did the test, comparing a symbol (that has a numeric value assigned to it) to 
a constant numeric value and it works just fine. No RC in my test.


Cheers,

Jantje.

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