<snip> Has anyone created their own system symbol and then referenced it in HLASM ? </snip>
Adding system symbols is not something that a program should be doing. IEASYMxx is the supported method for defining system symbols. SETLOAD IEASYM is the supported method for adding a system symbol after IPL. <snip> what I am not clear on is how to have HLASM code read the system symbol table and compare for the desired symbol.What i want to do is if we find a specific symbol set, have a exit perform conditional logic. </snip> You should not "read the system symbol table". If you want to see if a specific symbol is set, then you should use the ASASYMBM service to try to substitute a string that has that symbol in it and see if substitution occurred. This of course is very inefficient, and unless this will happen only once in the life of the system you would be better off doing this once, somewhere, and stashing the result so that subsequent times can get the result quickly. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
