Date:         Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:57:26 -0400
Reply-To:     Alina Chu <alina.chu@NYU.EDU>
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From:         Alina Chu <alina.chu@NYU.EDU>
Subject:      parenthesis appending
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Here is the code I was using to try and append the closing
parenthesis to the dataset name with member appended.  In this case
when the members are associated with a certain field there is no
dataset name in the original report but a standard dataset name as I
show below:
>  000088  DATA FTPINF; SET FTPCHKS;
>  000089          FORMAT PDSN $CHAR54. ;
>  000090          IF MISSING(FTPCMDS) AND MISSING(FTPSTRT) AND
>  000091             MISSING(SDSN) AND MISSING(DSN) THEN DELETE;
>  000092          IF FTPSTRT NE ' ' THEN DO;
>  000093           TDSN='ENDP.PROD.SYSINLIB(' ;
>  000094           TESTRT=FTPSTRT||')' ;
>  000095           SDSN=TDSN||FTPSTRT ;
>  000096           PDSN=TDSN||TESTRT ;
>  000097          END;

I had not looked at this for awhile. I now see that with the above
code having executed, I missed seeing that it is getting a message
that the TESTRT field is too long and it is being
truncated.  Assuming that I can correct my length problem I should be
able to simplify the code to just concatenating the ')'.  No wonder I
would never see the closing parenthesis!

I thought I was having a DUH moment and unfortunately I was
correct.  Sorry if I wasted everyone's time.
Alina

Alina Chu
New York University