Resolve symbolics - other than starting chars in qualifiers

Shrinika Rajendran · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2013 Posts: 25 Location: India

Hi,
Is there a way to resolve symbolics if its for the content other than starting characters of the 8 bytes qualifier in a DSN??

&SYM1=NEW,

1) DSN name: MY.PDS.COOL&SYM1..TEST
This is always resolved as MY.PDS.COOL.NEW.TEST

Is there a way to get "MY.PDS.COOLNEW.TEST" by passing 'NEW' thru symbolics?

Thanks

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 6:42 pm

Why don't you try it? Use TYPRUN=SCAN to make sure you do not inadvertently run the job. Also, check out the PROCLIBs at your site.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 6:53 pm

Don't you mean "sym1=new" not "&sym1=new"? This resolves fine for me.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 6:57 pm

works for me ....

Shrinika Rajendran · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2013 Posts: 25 Location: India

Nic; Terry; Enrico;
Yes. It is "sym1=new" and not "&sym1=new".

It does work for me now. I was using 'peek' option to view the dataset which is our internal REXX tool to edit, view or browse a dataset on the fly without having to go thru 3.4 option, which would show up the datset name after resolving the symbolics even if the dataset is not catalogued. It resolved the dataset name incorrectly that I got this doubt.

Thanks all.