Creating symbols

If you explicitly create or modify one of the symbols, rather than let IPCS create or modify it, you might bypass IPCS's validity checking process. For example, if you create the symbol UCB000E with the following subcommand:
equate ucb000e 4140.
and later use the FINDUCB subcommand to locate the UCB for device 000E, the FINDUCB subcommand finds the symbol in the symbol table and displays the storage at the address associated with that symbol. Because your EQUATE subcommand did not specify STRUCTURE(UCB), the storage at X‘4140’ was not validity checked to ensure that it is a UCB.