You are correct.
Simple job:
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
/* THIS IS A COMMENT */
/* SO IS THIS */
/*
//STEP2 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
/* THIS IS A COMMENT -
SO IS THIS */
/*
Output:
IDCAMS SYSTEM SERVICES
/* THIS IS A COMMENT */
/* SO IS THIS */
IDC0002I IDCAMS PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 0
IDCAMS SYSTEM SERVICES
/* THIS IS A COMMENT -
SO IS THIS */
IDC0002I IDCAMS PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 0
No complaints about a multi-line comment.
Rex
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Mike Wawiorko
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [External] Re: Comments in IDCAMS statements
Isn't this more lack of the IDCAMS continuation character ' - ' or does my
memory fail me?
Mike Wawiorko
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Jousma, David
Sent: 30 May 2018 15:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Comments in IDCAMS statements
This mail originated from outside our organisation -
[email protected]
From the book:
Commands can begin at, or to the right of, the left margin. For batch
processing jobs, the default margins are 2 and 72.
Commands are separated from their parameters by one or more separators
(blanks,commas, or comments). For some parameters, parentheses are used as
separators.
Comments are strings of characters surrounded by /* and */. Comments can
contain any characters except */.
I haven’t tested, but it looks like multi-line comments are not supported with
only 1 opening and closing /* */?
_________________________________________________________________
Dave Jousma
Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President [email protected]
1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Steve Smith
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Comments in IDCAMS statements
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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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sas
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