You are thinking REXX comments, which allow multi-line comments. IDCAMS only supports single line comments.

Tony Thigpen

Steve Smith wrote on 05/30/2018 10:24 AM:
I thoguht I understood how to run AMS.  Either I don't, or something
strange is going on:

  /* N.B.:      EAVNS0 IS NON-VSAM, SO DELETE DATACLAS AND ACCOUNT
11080078
                BELOW TO ALLOCATE THERE.
11090078
IDC3219I VERB NAME 'BELOW'
UNKNOWN
IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS
12


                ALTERNATIVE IS TO DELETE THE VOL(EAVNS0) LINES .
11100078
IDC3219I VERB NAME 'ALTERNATIVE'
UNKNOWN
IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS
12


  */
11110078
IDC3219I VERB NAME '*/'
UNKNOWN
IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS
12

Even more baffling, this worked:

/* N.B.:      EAVNS0 IS NON-VSAM, SO DELETE DATACLAS AND ACCOUNT
11080078
/*            BELOW TO ALLOCATE THERE.
11090079

11100079
/*            OTHERWISE DELETE THE VOL(EAVNS0) LINES.
11110079

11120079

Did they start using the TSO CLIST parser?



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