I remember when IBM enhanced CLIST in MVS (OS/VS2 R3.6?), greatly increasing the number of consecutive apostrophe required.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 7:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How do I get a lower-case value into a "long" symbol? Ah, of course, the old triple-quote. Seriously, thanks. My real stuff was a little more complicated than the below and I had to rearrange it to get it to work, but yes, the triple quote solved it. As I recall now I have had this issue before, and solved it with (or something like) // SET Q='''' ... // SET LONGSYM=&Q.&SYM1.&SYM2.&Q Thanks again. @Gil hates EBCDIC. I have to admit I am not overly fond of JCL. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How do I get a lower-case value into a "long" symbol? I think that you have to triple-quote the beginning of the SYM1 value and the end of the SYM2 value, like this: // SET SYM1='''blah,blah,blah' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
