On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:28:30 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Read the much improved doc in the z/OS V2.4 TSO/E REXX Reference for >> MVSVAR(SYMDEF,xxx). > >That's what I was quoting. > >> I think everything will be clearer. > >Clear, but it matches neither my expectations nor the output that Bruce Hewson >described. > > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 That's because he was using it incorrectly. A single word for each System Symbol name, not a string with multiple words in it. SYMDEF,symbolic-name returns the value associated with the symbolic-name defined in an IEASYSxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB on a SYSDEF ... SYMDEF statement. Or, symbolic-name can also be one of the system static or dynamic symbols as defined in z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference. ... Any other values including REXX delimiters might cause unpredictable results. Seems pretty clear to me. GIGO -- Dale R. Smith Factotum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
