On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:43:47 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Why? I suspect that only Mike knows.
>
MFC? I suspect it was out of his control before that happened.
>Worse, the same manual has an example where the name is longer than 8
>characters.
>
Oh, don't you make me search for it. ITYM:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ikja300/mvsvarr.htm
That is, IEASYMxx contains the definitions:
SYMDEF(&LONG_SYMBOL_NAME='SY1T_ON_PLEX_A44T')
SYMDEF(&EXTSYM_='<==THIS VALUE CAN BE UP TO 44 CHARS LONG===>')
Then, the MVSVAR function can be used to retrieve the values of these symbols
as shown:
z1 = MVSVAR('SYMDEF','LONG_SYMBOL_NAME')
z2 = MVSVAR('SYMDEF','EXTSYM_')
For z1:
<- Returns z1: SY1T_ON_PLEX_A44T
For z2:
<- Returns z2: <==THIS VALUE CAN BE UP TO 44 CHARS LONG===>
-- gil
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